Introduction
Zealand is a big island with many bays and coves. Covered with forests, towns and fertile farmland which has been cultivated for the last 6000 years.
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The landscape undulates with small hills, none higher than 150 m, and is varied with many new sights, stories and experiences. Everywhere there are traces of man’s enterprise. There are big cairns and megalithic tombs from the Stone Age, burial mounds from the Bronze and Iron Ages. In Trelleborg you can see the wheel-shaped castle from Viking times. From here the Vikings went on raids across the North Sea. |
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The many villages bear witness to settlement in the Middle Ages. Later came manor houses with long avenues, big fields and forests. Farms moved out from the villages and smallholdings arrived. Everything was linked by small harbours and market towns. The protected coasts have been shaped by the sea since the ice withdrew 15,000 years ago. The most spectacular coastal stretch is the cliffs at Møn which rises majestically out of the low-salt water of the Baltic Sea. |
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