Capital Region is Travelog's home for both Copenhagen, Denmark's capital and largest city, whose Nyhavn harbor was dug in the early 1670s under King Christian V, and Helsingør, a short train ride north, home to Kronborg Castle, the fortress UNESCO recognized in 2000 as the actual inspiration for Shakespeare's Elsinore in Hamlet.
Copenhagen and Helsingør, roughly 45 minutes apart by train, tell genuinely different stories, one a capital without its own UNESCO listing but genuine, documented harbor history, the other a smaller town holding one of Denmark's most literarily significant UNESCO sites.
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