Vallø Castle, Denmark

Vallø Castle, Denmark. Photo: Flemming - DSC_0125/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Vallø consists of four wings with robust towers and is surrounded by a moat. The south wing, with its robust corner towers, and the south end of the west wing were built from 1580 to 1586 by Mette Rosenkrantz, one of the richest women in Denmark of her day. In Christen Skeel's time of ownership, from 1638 to 1659, the castle was expanded to three storeys and the west wing extended. The north wing was built by Johan Cornelius Krieger in 1721.

Vallø Castle. Photo: Niels Elgaard Larsen/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A three-winged building designed by Lauritz de Thurah was built in the courtyard from 1735 to 1738. The surviving central wing expanded with an extra storey by Georg David Anthon in 1765.

Vallø Moat Bridge. Photo: Niels Elgaard Larsen/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The park was turned into a Romantic landscape garden in 1830 but retains elements from the former French gardens from the 1720s.

Next to castle and its park there is a cluster of historic houses arranged around a street known as Vallø Castle Street. (Wikipedia)

Vallø Castle Street. Photo: Hubertus45/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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