Danemark
Between the North Sea and the Baltic, with islands by the hundred, Denmark is a country of water, of sea, of watercolours. Its tones are soft, the green of the countryside is everywhere, and the light turns low and golden on certain summer evenings.
Fanefjord, one of the fresco-painted churches counted among the most beautiful in Denmark.
Møn and southern Zealand
Barely attached to the European continent by a few dozen kilometres of border, Denmark is as flat as it is resolutely maritime. Southern Zealand, with its high cliffs (Møns Klint, Stevns Klint) looking out over the Baltic, is marked elsewhere by open green landscapes, white sand beaches and the many bridges that link southern Zealand to the islands of Falster, Lolland and Møn.
At nearly 128 metres high, the chalk cliffs of the island of Møn have overlooked the Baltic for 70 million years, formed mainly of prehistoric shells. Over a length of 7 kilometres, the movement of glaciers from the north pushed the ocean floor towards the south-west. Millions of cubic metres of crustacean remains were forced upward, forming folds and ridges that rose above the surface of the ocean. It was at the end of the last ice age, around 11,000 years ago, as the ice melted, that today's cliffs appeared.
The cliffs of the island of Møn
Stege
Southern Zealand is rich in small towns and picturesque harbours. Many are very well-preserved medieval centres. Stege, the capital of the island of Møn, is an old town with partly preserved ramparts and fortifications.
Baltic
Dunes, stretches of grass on the sand, deep waters; behind the dunes lie the heaths and the coniferous forests that hide small holiday houses.
Nyord & Ulvshale
Nyord is a small island of 5 km², largely covered by salt meadows that are worked in summer but flooded in winter. The island was only connected by a bridge in 1968; until then a small boat carried the islanders back to Møn, which helped preserve its natural environment, now the Ulvshale nature reserve.
Avnø
A former military air base turned into a nature reserve in 1996, its preserved control tower offers a wide view over the Avnø fjord. These salt meadows, beaches and wetlands shelter a particularly rare flora and fauna, in a landscape where land, sea and sky meet.
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