Birka and Hovgarden - UNESCO World Heritage Site @WorldHeritageJourney

Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

Birka and Hovgarden is an unusual UNESCO World Heritage Site. They're a pair of old viking settlements on an island about an hour's ferry ride to the west of Stockholm. They were heavily-populated trading centres from around 850-1100 AD when they were suddenly and mysteriously abandoned. There's some interesting archaeological research happening here, and it provides a lot of detail about vikings - still a people we know surprisingly little about!

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Archaeological Area of Agrigento: youtu.be/a8DMfFiaV_o
Archaeological Area of Paestum: youtu.be/Q1DjTuyi5QA
Villa Adriana (Hadrian's Villa): youtu.be/MSJJ-MAFsv8

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