Monday 8 July 2019

The oldest city in Denmark.

We explored Ribe, the oldest city in Denmark. It has the ruins of a castle - just ramparts, moat and a single excavated tower, a 12th C cathedral, and lots of colourful quaint houses.

When you don't have room on the floor, just use the ceiling!

It looks just like the real thing.

Nobody loses their marbles in this house.

And the same architect worked on this as well

Some nice details

And a biscuit-tin lid

The Cathedral is the main draw, though the Viking museum must come close

J and I had a discussion about the various towers and how the rear brick one was anachronistic. How right we were,  as it replaced the mirror of the front on in the 14th C, ruining the symmetry of the original design.

Quite a nice interior. Not over done like Italian Baroque. And if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!


What light from yonder window shines? (Shame about the rope.)

Everyone appreciates a well polished knob.

Two out of three correctly identified where the heart was.

Though you can't blame her when this was the anatomy textbook.

Dagmar, wife of Valdemar, (can I say that name Harry?) looks over her city. Or so they say,  they just make half of this s__t up! 

I didn't take any pictures in the Viking Museum, but it was very good. Even had some of the text in English which helps, as did the English film they showed. Ribe was established as an important trading centre between Europe and the Scandi countries. It was the northern most edge of the Frankish empire, had the easily navigated Wattensee just downstream and could be reached by 'international' traders.

The carpark has filled up and then some, with MHs taking up bus parks - at their risk as there have been fines issued according to comments on the websites.


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