CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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273 km from Hillerød to Hillerød, about 4 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Kronborg Castle, Roskilde Cathedral and back through Kronborg Castle. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 36 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Par force hunting sounds like a French affectation, and it was. The kings of Denmark in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imported the style from the French court, in which riders on horseback and packs of hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. To make it work, they needed a landscape designed for speed, and in North Zealand the royal foresters cut long, straight rides through the woods, many of them meeting at star-shaped crossings, so that the hunters could see the quarry and keep control of the chase. The pattern is still visible in the forests of Gribskov and Store Dyrehave, and UNESCO listed the landscape in 2015.
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The par force hunting landscape in North Z is where the day begins. 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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Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Kronborg Castle. 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 Kronborg Castle.
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back through Kronborg Castle sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
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back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 248 km into the recorded legs. Next is The par force hunting landscape in North Z.
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The par force hunting landscape in North Z closes the day.
The par force hunting landscape in North Z → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Kronborg Castle is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle → Roskilde Cathedral is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Roskilde Cathedral → back through Kronborg Castle is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kronborg Castle → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → The par force hunting landscape in North Z is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.