The Naval Port of Karlskrona The Naval Port of Karlskrona. Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg, National Heritage Board, 1999 Karlskrona was founded in 1680 to meet the need for a naval base in southern Sweden. The shipbuilding, urban planning and techniques of contruction and defence in Karlskrona attracted great attention in Europe during the eighteenth century. The naval port of Karlskrona was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1998. The Justification of the World Heritage Committee Karlskrona is an exceptionally well preserved example of a European planned naval town which incorporates elements from earlier establishments in other countries and which was in its turn to serve as a model for subsequent towns with similar functions. Naval bases played an important role in the centuries during which naval power was a determining factor in European Realpolitik, and Karlskrona is the best preserved and most complete of those that survive. The Naval Port of Karlskrona Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg, National Heritage Board, 1999 Link www.orlogsstadenkarlskrona.se Choose a site The Laponia Area The Church Town of Gammelstad The High Coast Falun World Heritage Site Engelsberg Ironworks Birka and Hovgården The Royal Domain of Drottningholm Skogskyrkogården in Stockholm The Rock Carvings in Tanum The Hanseatic Town of Visby Grimeton Radio Station in Varberg The Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland The Naval Port of Karlskrona Struve Geodetic Arc