A trip to Visingsö part 2, Sweden August-2010
View from Näs Castle.
Vy från Näs_slott
Näs Castle on the
southern tip of Visingsö.
An old farmhouse at Visingsö.
Visingsö
According to folklore the King Karl Sverkersson was
murdered 1167 and tied to a oak that stod here until the beginning of 1900.
This almost 1000 year old oak was replaced by this oak that was planted in 1956
and now is the new Sverkers Oak.
Mullbärs trees
was planted on Visingsö and between 1836-1864
silk was produced in small
quantities on Visingsö.
Mullbärs trees
Visingsborg
was destroyed in a fire 1718.
Leaving Visingsö
The lake
Vättern
The lake
Vättern and Visingö
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