Elsinore

I went to Elsinore on Sunday. Here are pictures!

This is the outside of the castle.


And the view looking out from the castle. It was very foggy, but if you look closely, you can see Sweden in the background.


Of course there was a Shakespeare plaque. The tour guide told us that nobody knows whether or not Shakespeare ever went to Elsinore. She said it was very possible that he had actually been there. From the specific detail in the Hamlet, it is clear that either Shakespeare visited in Elsinore or he talked to somebody who had.


I like this door. You can see the C4 at the top of it, which means it was the door of King Christian the Fourth. Every king for quite a very long time has been named Christian or Frederik, so they can "label" things - doors, churches, other things they have built - with their initial and number.