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Lindholmen in the old shipyard area is home to what is perhaps the most hidden and undiscovered part of the Karlskrona World Heritage Site – the rope maker’s walk. This is despite the fact that it can easily be seen as the heart of the Naval Port and its heritage. “The smell of tar will always remind you of this visit.”

Step into the rope maker’s walk and you step back in time as many years as the walk is long. One of the oldest preserved buildings in Karlskrona and the longest wooden building in Sweden, the rope maker’s walk is 300 metres long. It was built in 1692–93 and was used until the 1960s when rope making stopped in Karlskrona. The building, which is the foremost structure from the oldest period of the shipyard is largely unchanged since it was built.

The Naval Port of Karlskrona was entered on UNESCO’s list of unmissable World Heritage Sites in 1998.

Read more about the World Heritage Site and find all the places that form part of it in the article about the Naval Port of Karlskrona.

Source: Visit Karlskrona