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The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
The cultural landscape is located approximately 30 km northeast of Copenhagen and includes the hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov and the Jægersborg Hegn/Jægersborg Dyrehave hunting park. It is a carefully designed landscape where the Danish kings and their courts practiced compulsory hunting or hunting with hounds, which reached its peak in the late 17th and 18th centuries when absolute monarchs turned it into a power landscape. With hunting paths laid out in a star pattern, combined with an orthogonal grid pattern, numbered stone pillars, fences and hunting lodges, the site demonstrates the application of Baroque landscape design principles to a forested area.
Roskilde Cathedral
Built in the 12th-13th centuries, the church was the first brick Gothic church in Scandinavia and helped spread the style throughout northern Europe. It has served as a mausoleum for the Danish royal family since the 15th century. The porch and side aisles were added to the church only in the late 19th century. It thus provides a clear overview of the development of religious architecture in Europe.
Kronborg Castle
Kronborg Castle is strategically located on the River Sund, a body of water between Denmark and Sweden. Kronborg Castle has huge symbolic significance for the Danish people and played an important role in the history of Northern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. Construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle began in 1574 and its fortifications were reinforced in the late 17th century according to the standards of military architecture of the time. Kronborg Castle remains intact to this day. Kronborg Castle is world-famous for being the setting of Elsinore, the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet.