sweden destinations Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/sweden-destinations Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Visit to Sweden http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-sweden.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-sweden.html#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 05:27:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228981 In ICELAND there was a great flowering of this northern Germanic art. Notable examples are found on the carved doorways ofthe stave churches, like the one from Valthjofstad (11 th-12th c.) in the Reykjavik Museum. Until the beginning ofthe Christian period in Scandinavia, however, there is little artistic progress to record. The adoption of Christianity (c. 1000) marked the terminal point of Viking art, and the stone churches which were now built displayed the power of the new faith. These churches, the best preserved monuments of the Romanesque period, were originally simple buildings in limestone, later in granite. The finest

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