DK · Curated travel guide
Kronborg, Roskilde Cathedral, Øresund Bridge and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Denmark and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. 3 are on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
Medieval castle in Helsingør, Denmark
A castle and historic stronghold in Helsingør, Denmark, made famous as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and one of Northern Europe's most important Renaissance castles.
Photo: H.C. Steensen, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Church in Roskilde, Denmark
A cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark in the city of Roskilde, on Zealand (Sjælland), an island in the east of Denmark.
Photo: CucombreLibre from New York, NY, USA, CC BY-SA 4.0
Road and railway bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark
Also spelled Öresund Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark, carrying both railway and motorway. The second-longest bridge in Europe, it holds road and rail in one structure: the European route E20 and the Øresund Line.
Photo: Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bridge–tunnel road and railway crossing of the Great Belt in Denmark
Also called the Great Belt fixed link, a crossing of several parts over the Great Belt strait, joining Funen and Zealand, two Danish islands. A road suspension bridge and a railway tunnel run between Zealand and Sprogø, a small island in the middle of the strait, and a box-girder bridge carrying both road and rail runs on from Sprogø to Funen.
Photo: Sendelbach ( talk ), Public domain
Home of the Danish royal family
The official Copenhagen residence of the Danish monarch and the royal family. The complex has four identical Classical façades, in effect four palaces, with Rococo interiors, set around an octagonal courtyard.
Photo: Janeway666, CC BY-SA 3.0
Palace in Copenhagen, seat of the Danish Parliament
Standing on Slotsholmen, an islet in central Copenhagen, a palace that houses Denmark's Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court.
Photo: eimoberg from Changwon, South Korea, CC BY 2.0
Amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark
Often just Tivoli, an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. It opened on 15 August 1843, and only Dyrehavsbakken, in nearby Klampenborg, also in Denmark, is an older amusement park still running.
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0
World Heritage
Cliff in Stevns Municipality, Denmark
Known in English as the Cliffs of Stevns: a white chalk cliff on Zealand, the Danish island, with Store Heddinge some 6 km (3.7 mi) to the cliff's northwest. It runs for 17 km (11 mi) along the coast and matters geologically as one of the world's best exposed Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) boundaries.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
Renaissance castle in Copenhagen, Denmark
A Renaissance castle in Copenhagen, Denmark, first put up in 1606 as a summerhouse in the country, and one of Christian IV's many building projects.
Photo: kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Nordic country of Northern Europe: the metropole, and the most populous part, of the Kingdom of Denmark, or Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that also takes in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, autonomous territories in the north Atlantic. Metropolitan Denmark, also called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark proper", is made up of the northern Jutland peninsula plus an archipelago of 406 islands.
Officially The Kingdom of Denmark. Known locally as Danmark.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Kronborg, Roskilde Cathedral, Øresund Bridge and Great Belt Bridge and others. Kronborg, Roskilde Cathedral and Stevns Klint are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Denmark that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
3 of the 10 in this guide: Kronborg, Roskilde Cathedral and Stevns Klint. That is not the full count for Denmark, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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