Wednesday 3 February 2016

Kronborg Castle

This is for sure the most famous castle in Denmark, and I would love to visit it, as well as the rest of the country.

Kronborg Castle

This postcard was sent by Christina

Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of Kronborg at Helsingør (Elsinore) is of immense symbolic value to the Danish people and played a key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Work began on the construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle in 1574, and its defences were reinforced according to the canons of the period's military architecture in the late 17th century. It has remained intact to the present day. It is world-renowned as Elsinore, the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet. - inhttp://whc.unesco.org/en/list/696

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