• Kronborg Castle

  Kronborg Castle

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  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_696.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of Kronborg at Helsing&oslash;r (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&apos;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&apos;s Hamlet.

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