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Danmark

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0156.157° N · 10.210° E
Place guide · Den Gamle ByDen Gamle By

The Old Town open-air museum in Aarhus, founded in 1909, presenting 68 historic buildings from various Danish towns arranged chronologically from 1660 to 1970, with period-costumed staff demonstrating period crafts and daily life.

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0256.039° N · 12.621° E
Place guide · Kronborg SlotKronborg Castle

A Dutch Renaissance castle at the narrowest point of the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden, built mainly between 1574 and 1585 under King Frederick II, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

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0355.693° N · 12.599° E
Place guide · Den lille HavfrueThe Little Mermaid

A small bronze mermaid statue sitting on a granite boulder at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen harbour, modelled after Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, unveiled in 1913.

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0454.969° N · 12.557° E
Place guide · Møns KlintMøns Klint

Dramatic white chalk cliffs rising up to 128 metres above the Baltic Sea on the eastern coast of the island of Møn, part of a larger chalk formation spanning northern Europe, a protected nature reserve since 2002.

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0555.642° N · 12.084° E
Place guide · Roskilde DomkirkeRoskilde Cathedral

The main burial church of the Danish royal family since the tenth century, begun around 1059, rebuilt in Gothic brick from the 12th to 13th century, and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.

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Place guide · Tivoli GardensTivoli Gardens

The world's second-oldest operating amusement park, opened in 1843 in the heart of Copenhagen, blending gardens, rides, concerts and architecture into one of Europe's most beloved leisure destinations.

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