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  1. For more than 500 years, Kronborg Castle has occupied the strategically important location at the narrowest point of the Øresund to control the entrance to the Baltic Sea. This is where Christian IV as a child ran around the castle's stairs and through the magnificent halls. And this is where Holger Danske sleeps in the casemates - ready to ...

  2. Welcome to Kronborg Castle. At the entrance of Øresund – the sound between Sweden and Denmark - the castle Kronborg rises in front of the harbor of the cozy maritime city of Helsingor. Here where the strait is the narrowest Kronborg has been the center of magnificent parties, dramatic events, tragedies, intrigues, trade, war and love ever ...

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  4. Apr 24, 2020 · History & more information. Kronborg Castle is a renaissance stronghold, and UNESCO World Heritage Site, found in the town of Helsingor in Denmark. The castle, which was built between 1574 and 1585, holds a strategic position between the North Sea and the Baltic. The castle is best known for being re-imagined by William Shakespeare in the play ...

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  5. Jan 25, 2011 · Kronborg Castle has been used as a royal residence, a garrison, a prison, and lastly a museum. But the castle’s fame chiefly rests on its connection with two great figures of legend. One is ...

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  6. Kronborg Slot. Best known as the Elsinore Castle of Shakespeare's Hamlet, this Unesco World Heritage Site is a vast Renaissance masterpiece topped by baroque green-copper spires. It's ringed by moats, fortifications and powerful Vaubanesque star bastions that you can discover without a ticket.

  7. The city prospered until the toll was abolished in 1857. Kronborg Castle, the Elsinore Castle of Shakespeare ’s Hamlet, was built in Helsingør between 1574 and 1585 by Frederick II in Dutch Renaissance style to replace an earlier fortress built by Erik VII (of Pomerania) in the 15th century; in the 17th century much of the castle was ...

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