Helsingør

It’s speculated that Helsingør has been inhabited for nearly two thousand years, since the year 70 AD. Today, it’s home to a number of great museums, churches, and beaches, but the highlight of the city has to be the notorious Kronborg Castle. A World Heritage site, it was made famous by William Shakespeare who set his play Hamlet there. In the real world, Frederik II built the renaissance castle in the late 1500s as his stronghold, after which it withstood centuries of battles and foreign occupation. It was the residence of Denmark’s royal family until 1785.