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Kastellet

Kastellet is a star-shaped citadel in Copenhagen arranged as a pentagon with five bastions, an encircling moat and inner buildings. Its grounds include barracks terraces, a commander's house, a baroque church, a working windmill and small storehouses, and it has served as an active military post and public park.

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First raised

1662

Its prime

1725

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1725

What Kastellet looked like in its prime.

A five-pointed star fort of earthen, grass-covered ramparts and sloping glacis around a water-filled moat. Red-tiled, two-storey barrack terraces and yellow-painted masonry officer houses cluster within the pentagon around a broad rectangular parade ground. The southern King's Gate is a stone, Dutch-Baroque portal with pilasters and a royal bust; a wooden Dutch-style windmill crowns the southwestern bastion. Paths run along the grassy crowns of the ramparts, trees dot the inner lawns.

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10 places to explore in 1725.

The record describes 10 distinct spots at Kastellet, including 3 interiors: king's gate interior and central guard house, kastelskirken (citadel church) nave, commander's house façade. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Approach to King's Gate (southern entrance)King's Gate interior and Central Guard HouseParade ground and The Rows (barrack terraces)Kastelskirken (Citadel Church) naveCommander's House façadeWindmill on King’s BastionPowder House at the Queen's Bastion (exterior)Rampart crown walk and moat viewNorway Gate and northern approachFyn's Ravelin and preserved forge (Blacksmith's Line)

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