Vreta Abbey

Landmark

Was founded between 1105 and 1100, by the King Inge the Elder and Queen Helena, on the request of the Pope Paschal II, and is the oldest known in Sweden

Vreta Abbey, in operation from the beginning of the 12th century to 1582, was the first nunnery in Sweden, initially Benedictine and later Cistercian, and one of the oldest in Scandinavia. It was located in the present-day municipality of Linköping in Östergötland.

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