CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 214 km round trip from Hillerød - roughly 3 h 38 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kronborg Castle, Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Roskilde Cathedral and back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 28 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Gribskov is the second largest forest in Denmark, a broad expanse of beech and spruce on the north Zealand plain. Walking or riding here, the first impression is of light. Beech trees in spring have a green so fresh and bright that it is almost unreal, and in autumn they turn bronze and gold, and the forest floor is carpeted with leaves. The ground is gently rolling, with small lakes and bogs hidden between the trees, and red deer and roe deer live in the woods.
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Gribskov is where the day begins. Next is Kronborg Castle.
Hamlet never lived at Kronborg, but Shakespeare put him there, and the castle has been Elsinore in the imagination of the world ever since. It stands on a point of land at Helsingør where the Øresund narrows to about four kilometres, with Sweden clearly visible across the water, and for centuries it controlled one of the most important shipping lanes in Europe. King Frederik II built the castle in its Renaissance form in the 1570s and 1580s, and every ship passing through the strait had to stop and pay the Sound Dues, a toll that made the Danish crown rich for over four hundred years until it was abolished in 1857. Kronborg was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000.
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Kronborg Castle comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
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about 62 km into the recorded legs you reach Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. Next is Roskilde Cathedral.
Roskilde Cathedral is where Denmark keeps its kings. Since the fifteenth century, almost every Danish monarch has been buried here, and the chapels and crypts hold around forty kings and queens, from medieval stone tombs to ornate baroque sarcophagi and modern designs. The cathedral itself, begun in the late twelfth century under Bishop Absalon, the warrior-churchman who also founded Copenhagen, was one of the first big brick Gothic churches in Scandinavia, and it set the style for church building across the region. UNESCO listed it in 1995. Inside, look for the clock with the figure of St George slaying the dragon, which strikes the hour, and the pillar where royal visitors have marked their height.
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Roskilde Cathedral, about halfway. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
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back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kronborg Castle.
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Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
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back through Kronborg Castle comes up about 190 km into the recorded legs. Next is Gribskov.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gribskov write-up.
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Gribskov closes the day.
Gribskov → Kronborg Castle is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Roskilde Cathedral is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Roskilde Cathedral → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → back through Kronborg Castle is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kronborg Castle → Gribskov is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.