Sigtuna is a town of Sweden, located in the northern suburbs of Stockholm. It belongs to the common of Sigtuna, whose seat is located at Märsta, and counts approximately 7  000 inhabitants.

Although it is nowadays a small town without much radiation, she played a very great part in the Histoire of Sweden.

History of Sigtuna

Sigtuna was founded on the coast of the Lac Mälar approximately 1000 years ago. It holds its name of an old royal field located at a few kilometers in the west, and which dates from the age of iron. Certain documents give Eric VI of Sweden as being the founder of the city, whereas others allot this role to his/her son Olof of Sweden.

During two centuries and half it was one of the most important towns of Sweden, being a high place of the trade and royalty. The old church built at the 13th century by the Dominicains in the Monastère of Sigtuna is still upright today and underwent only few restorations. The monastery had a great influence during the Moyen-âge, formant many personalities of the Church of Sweden. It also remains in Sigtuna of many ruins, and the structure of the old city was not reorganized as it was the case for much other Swedish cities with the {{mini XIXe}} and 20th century.

In 1187, Sigtuna was attacked and burned by pagan Pirate S of Courlande or Estonia, which contributed to make it lose of its influence to the profit of the towns of Uppsala, Visby, Kalmar and Stockholm. These same pagan brought back to Novgorod, after an animated tour, the gate of Sigtuna , set up since close to the cathedral Holy-Sophie with Novgorod.

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