Medieval History
Swedish house goes on sale, complete with medieval tomb and skeleton in cellar
A Swedish real estate agent has an unusual piece of property up for sale: a five-bedroom house, complete with medieval tomb and skeleton in the cellar.
The central Visby town house on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland was built in 1750 on the foundations of a Russian church. The kitchen lies on the presbytery, and the tomb containing the skeleton ? visible through a glass panel ? is in the cellar.
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