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   Legoland Billund

   The original Legoland, opened on 7 June 1968 beside the factory, after the company found that visitors kept turning up to see the models. Miniland is the core — cities and harbours built from tens of millions of bricks, replaced piece by piece as they weather.

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   Jelling Church

   A Lutheran church in Jelling, Jutland, Denmark. Its Romanesque stone building predates 1100 and is among the oldest in the country; before it, a wooden church raised by Harald Bluetooth around 965 stood on the same spot.

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   Givskud Zoo

   A zoo and safari park at Givskud, twenty kilometres northwest of Vejle in Denmark. It opened in 1969 as a lion park holding only lions and now keeps more than seven hundred animals of seventy species.

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   Kongernes Jelling

   A museum and visitor centre beside the Jelling monuments in Denmark. It tells how Jelling was the heart of the realm in the days of King Gorm and Harald Bluetooth, and shows the Jelling runestones as they originally looked.

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   Jelling Heritage Site

   A UNESCO World Heritage Site at Jelling in Vejle municipality, Denmark, made up of the Jelling runestones, Jelling church and two royal burial mounds.

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   Tørskind Gravel Pit

   A sculpture park in a former gravel pit near Egtved outside Vejle in Denmark. Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt made works in steel, granite and timber for the site between 1986 and 1991.

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   Jelling Mounds

   Two royal burial mounds at Jelling in Denmark, raised by Harald I for his parents, the tenth-century king Gorm and queen Thyra, who ruled from Jelling.

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   Egtved Runestone

   A Viking-age runestone found in 1863 south of the churchyard at Egtved in Denmark. It carries Old Norse cut in the younger futhark and is dated between 900 and 1020.

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   Troldborg Ring

   An Iron Age hill fort thirteen kilometres west of Vejle in Denmark. It stands on a spring-fed hill above the Vejle river valley, ringed by the steep ravine known as the devil's valley.

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    Jelling stone ship

    The remains of a stone ship beneath the two royal mounds at Jelling in Denmark. Recent work suggests it ran 354 metres with the northern mound at its centre, which makes it the longest stone ship known.

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   Polar X-plorer

   A steel roller coaster at Legoland in Billund in Denmark. It opened on 29 April 2012 and was the first Zierer coaster to include a free-fall drop.

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