Denmark is a Nordic constituent country in Northern Europe. It is the metropolitan part and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Denmark has seven UNESCO World Heritage sites and the great thing is that you can go on a true UNESCO hunt, because in Denmark everything is always close by.
Stevns Klint was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of natural properties in 2014.
The dramatic white cliffs at Stevns Klint are 65 million years old and an outstanding visible record of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Visit Old Højerup Church, perched at the top of the cliffs. It was was built by a sailor who'd been lost at sea and promised to build it if he was ever rescued.
On a summer day, the chalk seafloor colours the sea with amazing shades of blue, and the white cliff stands proud, topped by the green crowns of the trees. The cliff is both attractive and dramatic, and it is said that the “Cliff King”, or "Klintekongen", has his summer residence in one of the caves in the cliff.
Roskilde
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is Denmark's national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval period.
The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships, five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962. The Viking Ship Museum also conducts research and educates researchers in the fields of maritime history, marine archaeology and experimental archaeology.
The Vikings, or "Vikingr" in Old Norse, is the collective term used to describe the Scandinavian explorers, traders and warriors who raided, traded, explored and settled across large parts of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from around the eighth to the middle of the eleventh century.
Kronborg Castle
At the entrance of Øresund – the sound between Sweden and Denmark - the castle Kronborg rises in front of the harbor of the 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 since the Danish king Frederick II let the castle be built in the late 1500s.
Throughout the centuries Kronborg – surrounded by its bastions and cannon batteries – has been at once a royal residence as well as an impregnable fortress, guarding and protecting the profitable Sound Dues imposed on the trading route between Eastern and Western Europe.
Today Kronborg is one of the most important renaissance castles in Northern Europe. Every year it is the destination for many guests from all over the world, coming to Helsingor to explore the castle with its tall towers, nooks and crannies and - more than anything – to feel the blast from past parties and the decadent dramas that took place here.
More information:
Consulate of Denmark
39 Schanzen Road
Windhoek
Phone: +264 61 230 526
Fax: +264 61 258 278
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Office hours: Monday and Thursday: 09:00-11:00
Supervising authority: Denmark embassy in Pretoria
Denmark has seven UNESCO World Heritage sites and the great thing is that you can go on a true UNESCO hunt, because in Denmark everything is always close by.
Stevns Klint was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of natural properties in 2014.
The dramatic white cliffs at Stevns Klint are 65 million years old and an outstanding visible record of the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Visit Old Højerup Church, perched at the top of the cliffs. It was was built by a sailor who'd been lost at sea and promised to build it if he was ever rescued.
On a summer day, the chalk seafloor colours the sea with amazing shades of blue, and the white cliff stands proud, topped by the green crowns of the trees. The cliff is both attractive and dramatic, and it is said that the “Cliff King”, or "Klintekongen", has his summer residence in one of the caves in the cliff.
Roskilde
The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is Denmark's national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval period.
The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships, five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962. The Viking Ship Museum also conducts research and educates researchers in the fields of maritime history, marine archaeology and experimental archaeology.
The Vikings, or "Vikingr" in Old Norse, is the collective term used to describe the Scandinavian explorers, traders and warriors who raided, traded, explored and settled across large parts of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from around the eighth to the middle of the eleventh century.
Kronborg Castle
At the entrance of Øresund – the sound between Sweden and Denmark - the castle Kronborg rises in front of the harbor of the 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 since the Danish king Frederick II let the castle be built in the late 1500s.
Throughout the centuries Kronborg – surrounded by its bastions and cannon batteries – has been at once a royal residence as well as an impregnable fortress, guarding and protecting the profitable Sound Dues imposed on the trading route between Eastern and Western Europe.
Today Kronborg is one of the most important renaissance castles in Northern Europe. Every year it is the destination for many guests from all over the world, coming to Helsingor to explore the castle with its tall towers, nooks and crannies and - more than anything – to feel the blast from past parties and the decadent dramas that took place here.
More information:
Consulate of Denmark
39 Schanzen Road
Windhoek
Phone: +264 61 230 526
Fax: +264 61 258 278
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Office hours: Monday and Thursday: 09:00-11:00
Supervising authority: Denmark embassy in Pretoria
