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  • Fashion Jelling Mounds
    Jelling Mounds

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    "The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people towards the middle of the 10th century."
  • Fashion Roskilde Cathedral
    Roskilde Cathedral

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    "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."
  • Fashion Kronborg Castle
    Kronborg Castle

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    "Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden, the Royal castle of Kronborg at Helsingør (Elsinore) is of immense symbolic value to the Danish people and played a key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries."
  • Fashion Ilulissat Icefjord
    Ilulissat Icefjord

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    "Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world."
  • Fashion Wadden Sea
    Wadden Sea

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    "The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world."
  • Fashion Stevns Klint
    Stevns Klint

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    "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."
  • Fashion Christiansfeld, A Moravian Church Settlement
    Christiansfeld, A Moravian Church Settlement

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    "Founded in 1773 in South Jutland, the site is an example of a planned settlement of the Moravian Church, a Lutheran free congregation centred in Herrnhut, Saxony. The town was planned to represent the Protestant urban ideal, constructed around a central Church square."
  • Fashion The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
    The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand

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    "Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two hunting forests of Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, as well as the hunting park of Jægersborg Hegn/Jægersborg Dyrehave."
  • Fashion Kujataa Greenland
    Kujataa Greenland

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    "Kujataa is a subarctic farming landscape located in the southern region of Greenland. It bears witness to the cultural histories of the Norse farmer-hunters who started arriving from Iceland in the 10th century and of the Inuit hunters and Inuit farming communities that developed from 18th century."
  • Fashion Aasivissuit – Nipisat
    Aasivissuit – Nipisat

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    "Located inside the Arctic Circle in the central part of West Greenland, the property contains the remains of 4,200 years of human history."