Join a vivid journey back to the 14th century as one of the guides at Bornholms Middelaldercenter leads you through the village and opens the door to a world of people, crafts and stories. The tour is not about grand performances, but about the stories that bring the buildings and people of the past to life in your imagination.

Together with the guide, you visit the village’s different houses and workshops, where you hear about the lives of the blacksmith, the potter and the dyer, as well as the sense of community and celebration in the guild hall. Using the authentic surroundings as a backdrop, the guide brings everyday life, work and the people who might once have lived here vividly to life.

The tour also takes you inside the palisade to the impressive fortified manor, where the elite of society lived. Here you can explore the cookhouse, the kitchen building and the magnificent hall, whose wall paintings are inspired by the decorations in Østerlars Round Church. You will also visit the house of worship and the peaceful monks’ garden with medicinal herbs and plants, while the guide tells stories about faith, power, food, illness and daily life on medieval Bornholm.

Along the way, you gain a fascinating insight into the differences between rich and poor, the crafts of the period and the many small and large stories that together shaped life in a medieval village. Surrounded by tarred timber buildings, herb gardens and historic settings, the past feels remarkably close and alive.

This guided tour is the perfect introduction to Bornholms Middelaldercenter and gives both children and adults an engaging, sensory and thought-provoking encounter with life as it might have looked almost 700 years ago.