From the ruins of Hammershus to the literary home of “Hamlet,” Denmark’s fairytale castles are yet another reason to visit. Check out CNN Travel’s most beautiful castles.

Kadriorg Palace, Alatskivi Castle, Palmse Manor, Vihula Manor. Christine traces the history of Estonian homes made for Baltic Germans, Scandinavians and Russians. She visits Kadriorg Palace, built ...

Legend has it that William Forbes, known as “Danzig Willie” due to his Baltic trading fortune, won the castle from the impoverished Mortimer family in a game of cards. The Mortimers even claimed the ...

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A writer returns to his grandparents’ former castle-home in a seaside corner of Denmark known for its chalk cliffs, ‘dancing elves’ and haunting World War II past.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...

15th-century Baltic warship served as a 'floating castle' for an intrepid king. News. By Tom Metcalfe last updated 29 September 2022 "Nothing else like this has been found." ...

That fall, the Hamburg native paid 7 million euros for the Weissenhaus estate, a beachfront property on northern Germany’s Baltic coast with a 26,900-square-foot castle and some three dozen ...