kronborg castle
states: [denmark]
category: cultural
year: 2000
location: Island of Sjaelland, City of Helsingör, Capital Region of Denmark
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 56.0388900000, 12.6208333300
visited: 2010
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.
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