Frederiksborg Palace in Denmark – the largest Renaissance palace in Scandinavia

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The copper spires of Frederiksborg Palace reflect in the still waters of Palace Lake, creating the illusion of a castle suspended between sky and water. This is the largest Renaissance palace in Scandinavia, a monument to the power and ambition of King Christian IV, who transformed a modest hunting lodge into a magnificent royal residence […]

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Netherlands – a country of windmills, tulips and water canals

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The Netherlands is far more than Amsterdam’s canals and coffee shops, it is a small, densely populated, and remarkably innovative country where windmills still turn in the polders, fields of tulips paint the spring landscape in impossible colours, and a centuries-long battle against the sea has produced some of the most sophisticated water management engineering […]

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Sweden – open and accepting society

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Sweden is Scandinavia’s largest, most populous, and most diverse country, an open and accepting society that spans from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm to the Arctic wilderness of Lapland, from the sandy beaches of the Baltic island of Gotland to the vast forests and thousands of lakes that define the Swedish landscape and the national […]

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