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Helsingør Maritime and Culture Walk

Helsingør Maritime and Culture Walk

Helsingør · Denmark

14 stops8.1 km5 h 3 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk from the historic ramparts of the castle to the bustling waterfront and through the old town. You will see monumental sculptures, modern architecture, and the ships of the harbor. This route connects the city's royal past with its living relationship with the sea.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Kronborg Castle

    Kronborg Castle

    A Renaissance powerhouse built to tax the Baltic trade and immortalized as Elsinore in Hamlet.

  2. Heracles and the Hydra

    Heracles and the Hydra

    Herakles og hydraen, an artwork by Rudolph Tegner.

  3. Kulturværftet

    Kulturværftet

    A massive industrial shipyard transformed into a modern hub for concerts, theatre, and books.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Helsingør Harbour

    Helsingør Harbour

    Helsingør harbour, an attraction in Helsingør, Denmark.

  6. Værftsarbejderne

    Værftsarbejderne

    Værftsarbejderne, an artwork in Helsingør, Denmark.

  7. Carmelite Priory, Helsingør

    Carmelite Priory, Helsingør

    A stainless steel figure standing before the site of one of Scandinavia's finest monastic complexes.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.