Denmark UNESCO world heritage sites

°Copenhagen region [capital = Copenhagen]

°Hermitage Hunting Lodge in °Kongens Lyngby at °Lundtoftevej
° The Outstanding Universal Value of the landscape lies in the spatial organisation of the hunting forests, hunting roads, buildings, emblematic markers, numbered stone posts, stone fences, and numerical road names conveying an understanding of the practical application of the design as a means of orientation.

°Kronborg Castle in °Helsingor at °Nordhavnsvej 1A
° It has remained intact to the present day. It is world-renowned as Elsinore, the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

°Fyn region [capital = Odense]

°Nonnebakken rampart in °Odense on Nonnebakken
° The archaeological remains of Nonnebakken took heavy damage during the late 19th century, when a building for the Odd Fellow lodge was constructed on the site. In the 20th century, scientific excavations led by Fyns Stiftsmuseum revealed that the circular castle had an inner diameter of 120 m and was built in the years 980-1000, similar to the other Viking ring castles.

°North Jutland region [capital = Aalborg]

°Viking Castle Fyrkat in °Hobro on °Fyrkatvej
° The center resembles a large Viking farm, with a big longhouse, a smithy, a barn and some smaller buildings including exhibition buildings and a museum shop - nine buildings all in all.

°Aggersborg Fortress in °Logstor on °Aggersborgvej
° The site's ring fortress structure is typified by its earthen rampart and its carefully aligned circular design, comprising wooded structures and buildings which are arranged into courtyards.

°Kujalleq region (Greenland) [capital = Qaqortoq]

°Norse and Inuit Farming from °Qaportoq to Qassiarsuk
° Despite their differences, the two cultures, European Norse and Inuit, created a cultural landscape based on farming, grazing and marine mammal hunting. The landscape represents the earliest introduction of farming to the Arctic, and the Norse expansion of settlement beyond Europe.

°Qaasuitsup region (Greenland) [capital = Ilulissat]

°Icefjord in °Ilulissat
° The combination of a huge ice-sheet and the dramatic sounds of a fast-moving glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord covered by icebergs makes for a dramatic and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.

°Qeqqata region (Greenland) [capital = Sisimiut]

°Inuit Hunting Ground from °Aasivissuit to Nipisat
° The features of the property include large winter houses and evidence of caribou hunting, as well as archaeological sites from Paleo-Inuit and Inuit cultures.

°Ribe region [capital = Ribe]

°Wadden Sea in °Romo at °Havnebyvej 30
° It is a large, temperate, relatively flat coastal wetland environment, formed by the intricate interactions between physical and biological factors that have given rise to a multitude of transitional habitats with tidal channels, sandy shoals, sea-grass meadows, mussel beds, sandbars, mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, beaches and dunes.

°Roskilde region [capital = Roskilde]

°Cathedral in °Roskilde at °Domkirke pladsen 3
° Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged the spread of this style throughout northern Europe. It has been the mausoleum of the Danish royal family since the 15th century.

°South Jutland region [capital = Aabenraa]

°Moravian Church Settlement in °Christiansfeld at Haderslevvej 7
° The town was planned to represent the Protestant urban ideal, constructed around a central Church square. The architecture is homogenous and unadorned, with one and two-storey buildings in yellow brick with red tile roofs. The democratic organization of the Moravian Church, with its pioneering egalitarian philosophy, is expressed in its humanistic town planning.

°Møns Klint in °Borre on °Stengardsvej
° Visible cliff cross-sections reveal intense folding and faulting of Cretaceous chalk and Quaternary sediments. The area supports rare habitats like calcareous grasslands and beech forests, hosting diverse flora and fauna, including 18 species of orchid, and the almost-threatened Large Blue butterfly. Erosion continuously exposes fossils and reshapes the cliffs.

°Stevns Klint in °Tommerstrup at °Haervejen
° This geological site comprises a 15 km-long fossil-rich coastal cliff, offering exceptional evidence of the impact of the Chicxulub meteorite that crashed into the planet at the end of the Cretaceous, about 65 million years ago. Researchers think that this caused the most remarkable mass extinction ever, responsible for the disappearance of over 50 per cent of all life on Earth. The site harbours a record of the cloud of ash formed by the impact of the meteorite - the exact site being at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

°Vejle region [capital = Vejle]

°Mounds, Runic Stones and Church in °Jelling at °Thyrasvej 1
° Marking the beginning of the conversion of the Scandinavian people to Christianity, the Jelling Mounds, runic stones and church are outstanding manifestations of an event of exceptional importance.

°Western Zealand region [capital = Soro]

°Trelleborg Ring Fortress in °Slagelse at °Trelleborg Alle 3
° Trelleborg has recently revived its Viking heritage, building a museum of Viking culture and a village that transports the visitor to the reign of a young Harald Bluetooth.

°Borgring Ring Fortress in °Koge at °Ringstedvej 190
° Researchers from Aarhus University discovered the fort using LiDAR technology, which revealed the tell-tale geometric outline of a ring fortress. They then worked with experts from the University of York to use geophysics and radiocarbon dating of excavated timbers from a gateway to confirm the remarkable early medieval find.

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