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Vallø Slot
Red-brick Vallø Slot ticks all the ‘proper castle’ boxes, with pointy turrets and a moat filled with lily pads and croaking frogs. The building has retained its original 16th-century style, although much of it was rebuilt following a fire in 1893. While the castle itself is not ope
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Fredensborg Slot
The royal family’s summer residence, Fredensborg Palace was built in 1720 by Frederik IV. The main Italian baroque mansion, with its marble floors and a large central cupola, can only be visited in July, when the royal family holidays elsewhere. Whenever the royal family is in resi
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Lindholm Høje
The Limfjord was a kind of Viking motorway providing easy, speedy access to the Atlantic for longboat raiding parties. It’s not surprising, then, that the most important piece of Aalborg’s historical heritage is a predominantly Viking one.The atmospheric Lindholm Høje is a Viking b
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Slotsholmen
Slotsholmen is the seat of national government and a veritable repository of historical sites. Located on a small island and separated from the city centre by a moat-like canal, Slotsholmens centrepiece is Christiansborg Slot, a large palace that is home to Folketinget (the Danish
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Frøslevlejrens Museum
The town of Padborg (population 4500), right by the German border, is the site of Frøslevlejren (Frøslev Camp), an internment camp opened near the end of WWII following negotiations with Germany to keep Danish POWs in Denmark (despite this agreement, 1600 Danish patriots were depor
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Historic Buildings
For a glimpse of the past, head south from Torvet along Søndergade and turn right into Uldgade . The cobbled street has Tønder’s best collection of unique gabled houses. On the main pedestrian street, Drøhses Hus dates from 1672; it’s been meticulously restored and is open to the p
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Møns Klint
The 128m-high chalk cliffs of Møns Klint are one of Denmark’s most spectacular landmarks. Right behind the GeoCenter Møns Klint, a boardwalk leading right offers lofty views of the cliffs and sea below. Alternatively, a near-vertical flight of wooden stairs lead straight down to th
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Strøget
The pedestrian shopping street Strøget runs through the city centre from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv. Strøget is the citys main shopping thoroughfare and consists of five continuous streets. Its always busy and packed on Saturday but we cant help feeling it has begun to stagnat
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Valdemars Slot
One of Christian IV’s lavish palaces, Valdemars Slot was built for his son Valdemar Christian in 1644. Valdemar never actually lived here – he died on a Polish battlefield at the age of 34 – and the castle itself was badly damaged in the Danish-Swedish wars. It was gifted to the na
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Fyrkat
Although it’s smaller than the better-known Trelleborg in Zealand, the thousand-year-old Fyrkat ring fortress so closely resembles Trelleborg that both compounds are presumed to have been built by the Viking king Harald Bluetooth around 980. Fyrkat was excavated by archaeologists i
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Sorø Akademi
After the Reformation, Frederik II decreed that Sorø’s monastery should be turned into a school. In 1623, his successor, Christian IV, developed it into the Sorø Academy of Knights, an elite establishment dedicated to the education of the sons of the nobility. Lessons included the
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Den Gamle By
The Danes’ seemingly limitless enthusiasm for dressing up and re-creating history reaches its zenith at Den Gamle By. It’s an engaging, picturesque open-air museum of 75 half-timbered houses brought here from all corners of Denmark and reconstructed as a provincial market town from
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Arken
Arken was built to mark Copenhagen’s stint as European City of Culture in 1996. This remarkable contemporary art museum is as famed for the building that houses it – its nautical ship-shape inspired by its beachfront location on Ishøj Strand – as the international art contained wit
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Sorø Kirke
Denmark’s largest monastery church, and one of the country’s oldest brick buildings, is the 12th-century Sorø Kirke, set snugly on the grounds of the Sorø Academy. The Romanesque interior is simple and harmonious, brightened by medieval frescoes of blue, red, orange, green and whit
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Christiansborg Slot
Slotsholmen is the seat of national government and a veritable repository of historical sites. Located on a small island and separated from the city centre by a moat-like canal, Slotsholmens centrepiece is Christiansborg Slot, a large palace that is home to Folketinget (the Danish
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Little Mermaid
New York has its Lady Liberty, Sydney its (Danish-designed) Opera House. When the world thinks of Copenhagen, chances are theyre thinking of the Little Mermaid. Love her or loathe her (watch Copenhageners cringe at the very mention of her), this small, underwhelming statue is argua
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Ribe Domkirke
Dominating Ribe’s skyline is the impressive Ribe Cathedral, which dates back to at least 948 (the earliest record of the existence of a bishop in Ribe) – making it the oldest in Denmark. The cathedral was largely rebuilt in 1150 when Ribe was at the heart of royal and government mo
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Jelling Kirke
Inside this small whitewashed church, erected around 1100, are some vividly restored 12th-century frescoes ; the main attractions, however, are the two well-preserved rune stones just outside the church door.The smaller stone was erected in the early 10th century by King Gorm the O
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Sankt Bendts Kirke
Ringsted is mostly a modern town, with a bustling shopping centre but little in the way of tourist attractions. If you’re passing through, however, it’s worth stopping at the imposing Sankt Bendts Kirke, Scandinavia’s oldest brick church. It was built in 1170 by Valdemar I, partly
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Trelleborg
History buffs will revel in visiting one of the most important Viking Age sites, a ring fortress dating back to AD 980. Before heading across the meadows to the fortress and reconstructed Viking-era buildings, visit the small but informative museum, which explains how the fort was
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