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Roskilde, located just west of Copenhagen, Denmark, is a historic site dating to the viking age.

The Roskilde cathederal is one of the most popular tourist sites in the city - it is also listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. The cathederal is also the burial ground for danish monarchs and attracts over 125,000 visitors annually.

The most popular site in Roskilde is probably its fantastic viking ship museum. This museum hosts the well preserved and restored remains of five viking ships that were scuttled in the Roskilde fjord as a means of defending the city - which used to be the capital - against an invading army. This collection includes a ship 30m in length - the largest ever recovered.

The museum has recently made news as they have completed the restoration of one of the scuttled ships and will attempt to sail her back to her home port of Dublin, Ireland powered only by her sails.

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Renewing my membership of Denmark...

Jun 07, 2006 - Aug 13, 2006

London, England, UK -› Roskilde, Denmark -› ...

On the 12th I dorned my backpack, which seemed to have gained another few pounds from just standing in the London flat, and made my way to Heathrow, optimistically buying a one way ticket to the tube. Razwana came with me to keep me company, and without her I think I would have sat down and cried like a lost child at some point. When we arrived in Heathrow Terminal 4 everything was chaos, the parkinglot was full of desperate people and patient yellow-vested staff. They would only let p...

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Roskilde Cathedral

Jul 23, 2006 - Jul 26, 2006

Stockholm, Sweden -› Helsingor, Denmark -› ...

From Stockholm to Roskilde

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roskilde - viking museum

May 31, 2006 - Aug 11, 2006

Boston, Massachusetts, USA -› Rome, Italy -› ...

i took a day trip to roskilde, which is just west of copenhagen to visit the viking museum. roskilde used to be a very important port in denmark, and during an attack they scuttled five viking ships of various sizes in the middle of the harbor to force an attacking fleet to land farther up the coast. all five of these ships have been recovered and partially reconstructed in some cases. one ship was 30m in length, and i believe they said it was the largest viking ship ever found.back in copen...

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