Living

- This island is magical during the summer, but what do you do in the winter?
Everyone who lives permanently on Gotland has been asked this question many times. And we explain why this island is marvellous all year around. We have access to unique nature, a rich culture and social life inspired by the long, exciting history of the island and still it is just a half hour's airplane journey from Stockholm.

57.000 people live in one of Gotland´s 92 parishes, enjoying the creative strength and inspiring peace. Many entrepreneurs have already discovered Gotland, as have architects, designers, musicians and software developers. Free professionals who can live and work where ever they want often choose Gotland. Employers look for staff in different branches and the municipality welcome new companies to establish their business here. Gotland offers all the services a company could need - from data processing, legal, financial, advertising and marketing services to printing and distribution.

Accomodation and housing
Beautiful, functional buildings have been a feature of Gotland since time immemorial. Indeed, over 1,000 farms dating back to the Viking and medieval periods are still tenanted to this day. Over the last five years a number of new tenements and houses have been built, mainly in Visby and some of them with a marvellous view over the sea.

Education
In Gotland, the parish school is very much alive. There are upper-level compulsory schools in all the larger communities, and the upper secondary school in Visby offers tuition in a full range of general subjects and in several artistic fields as well.

Co-operating as it does with universities and colleges both inside and outside Sweden, the University College of Gotland is an important academic meeting place. The College offers programmes in the three principal academic fields of economics, technology and culture and independent courses in a wide variety of other subjects as well.

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