Another quick 30 minute S-tog train from Hillerød
to Helsingor - followed by a 15
minute walk to our second tourist sight today. It is Kronborg Castle, a UNESCO
World Heritage site.
Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, at the Sound of
Øresund, is one of northern Europe's most important Renaissance castles. Known
all over the world from Shakespeare's Hamlet, it is also the most famous castle
in Denmark. King Frederik II built Kronborg in 1574-1585 at the narrowest neck
of the Sound between Denmark and Sweden – the Renaissance counterpart of a
modern motorway. Through it sailed trading vessels from all over the world and
had to pay a tax, ‘the Sound Dues’ to the Danish King.
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