Consider this as the Grand Finale for Denmark's chapter on this blog. Helsingør is a small town about 45 minutes north of Copenhagen by train. Opening with one of my favorites in my Denmark collection, an Oh!-so-Danish picture taken outside Kronborg Slot (Kronborg Castle). The canons point towards Sweden (Helsingborg) which is just 20 minutes away by ferry. Friendly indeed.What is Kronborg Slot? Perhaps one would know it better as Elsinore, or Hamlet's Castle. Thanks to Shakespeare, who never even visited Helsingør but just heard descriptions from his well-traveled friends to get inspiration for the Hamlet setting, Kronborg Slot is now a major tourist attraction and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another site worth seeing in Helsingør is the Karmeliterkloster (Carmelite Monastary).
Of course you also get your usual deal of colorful houses and pedestrian street.
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