Last trip of the EVS Shabnam from Sweden.
Stonehenge, Salisbury and its Cathedral (13th century), the Old Sarum (a huge earthwork raised in 500 BC by the Iron Age settlers, and later occupied by Romans, Saxons and Normans, these last ones built a castle and a royal palaca, and by the mid-12th century it was a busy town with a new cathedral).
Salisbury was created because there was a lack of water and squabbles between church and military, so they built the city in 1220, Old Sarum was abandoned and fell into ruin.
Stonhenge... 5000 years of history, since Neolitic age... it is a very sophisticated stone circle built on the axis od the midsummer sunrise. The blue stones were brought 240 miles from Preseli mountains in Wales, just how they got them to this isolated place remains a mystery. There are many stories about the significance of Stonhenge... it may have been an astronomical observatory or used for sacred ritual linked to the sun, successful crops or even the dead.
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