Page 10 - Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens - February '21

Page 10, Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens
Visby, Gotland: Starting Its Fifth Millennium

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, Leno gets when he conducts
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens his “person on the street”
Travel Leaders interviews – lots of positive
Perhaps you watched answers, but none were right.
TV, as I did, 20 years ago Visby, Gotland got the same
on New Year ’s Eve, when results.
we celebrated the end of The first thing you
the second millennium and should know is that Gotland
beginning of the third. As the is an island. It’s actually
world turned, the television the biggest island in the
presentations from each of Baltic Sea, some 75 miles
the most prestigious cities in long by 35 miles wide. The
each time zone created an image of the occasion that excited island is located about 55
the imagination. It was communications and technology at its miles off the west coast of
best and it rightly should be given credit for the spectacular Sweden, with Latvia as its
event that we witnessed. But, it was the beauty of the cities closest neighbor. Several
themselves that left the lasting impression of entering into the bays interrupt the limestone
new millennium. Man has truly built wonders on our earth. coastline of Gotland, while Windmills dot the countryside in Gotland.
As I watched, it became apparent that the majority of the interior of the island has
the cities highlighted during the presentation weren’t there numerous clay-covered bogs. The western side has steep and dominated the routes between Western Europe and
a half millennium ago. And then, there are cities like Visby, cliffs and is covered by conifers, while most of the island Russia. The German trading class was quickly drawn
Gotland that preceded Christ by 2,000 years. Names like is used for farming. to Gotland activities and as a result, Visby was invited
Sydney, Paris, Washington, and New York automatically Examples of the Bronze Age were found in coinage to join the Hanseatic League. Trade flourished until the
paint pictures in our mind – but Visby? discovered on the island. Gotland’s inhabitants traded mid-14 century, with most of the Novgorod (northwestern
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I tried a little experiment last week and asked a few during this period with peoples on the eastern and Russia) trade passing through the island. The prosperity
people whether they had ever heard of Gotland or Visby. southern shores of the Baltic. Later evidence pointed of the time was reflected in the many fine churches and
As one might expect, the replies were about the same as Jay toward the ties the island had with Rome and the Islamic cathedrals built during this period (97 in the countryside
and Byzantine empires. The 12 century brought Gotland and 17 in Visby).
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into prominence. Its traders – representing the peasant
society on the island – had trading houses to Novgorod Visby, Gotland on page 11

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