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This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage to Denmark.

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the Denmark ratify the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on July 25, 1979. The first protected site was inscribed in 1994.

the Denmark has 6 sites registered with World Heritage, 3 cultural, 2 natural and one mixed.

The country has also submitted 11 sites to the tentative list, 8 cultural, 2 natural and 1 mixed.

Listing

The following sites are listed as World Heritage.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
55.64212.081 Roskilde Cathedral	Cultural	(ii), (iv)	High in XIIe and XIIIe centuries, it is the first Gothic cathedral Scandinavian built in brick. She was at the origin of the diffusion of this style throughout theNorth Europe. Mausoleum of the royal family of Denmark since the XVe century, it was enriched until the end of the XIXe century of porches and side chapels. It thus offers today a manifest summary of the evolution of European religious architecture.	UNESCO sheet
56.03912.6212 Kronborg Castle	Cultural	(iv)	Built on a strategic site of great importance which commands the Sound, a body of water between the Denmark and the Sweden, the royal castle of Kronborg in Helsingør (Elsinore) has considerable symbolic value for the Danes. He also played a leading role in the history of Northern Europe in the XVIe ‑ XVIIIe centuries. Construction work on this exceptional Renaissance castle began in 1574 and its defensive works were reinforced, according to the uses of military architecture of the time, at the end of the 17th century.e century. It has remained intact to this day. It is known worldwide as Elsinore Castle, setting of Hamlet, the most famous of Shakespeare's tragedies.	UNESCO sheet
55.7569.423 Tumulus, runic stones and Jelling church	Cultural	(iii)	The burial mounds and one of the runestones are outstanding examples of Nordic pagan culture, while the other runestone and the church are reminiscent of the conversion of the Danish people to Christianity around the middle of the 10th century.	UNESCO sheet
69.133-49.54 Ilulissat Ice Fjord (Greenland)	Natural	(vii), (viii)	Located on the west coast of Greenland, at 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Ice Fjord (40 240 Ha) is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which ice from the Greenlandic ice sheet reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest glaciers (19 m per day) and the most active in the world. Her annual calving of more than 35 km3, or 10% of all the calving ice (icebergs) in Greenland, exceeds that of all other glaciers in the world outside of Antarctica. Studied for more than 250 years, the site has enriched our understanding of climate change and the glaciology of the ice sheet. The immense sheet of ice combined with the awe-inspiring crash of a rapid ice flow calving in an iceberg-covered fjord creates a spectacular and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.	UNESCO sheet
55.312.455 Stevns Klint (Stevns Cliffs)	Natural	(viii)	This geological site, which includes a coastline along 15 km with fossiliferous cliffs, is an exceptional testimony to the impact of the fall of the Chicxulub meteorite, which occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago. Scientists generally consider this impact to be responsible for the most recent of the great mass extinctions in history, which caused dinosaurs to disappear and more than 50% of life on Earth. The sedimentary record of the ash cloud formed by the meteorite impact can be observed at this site, the site of the impact being at the bottom of the water off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. We can also observe an exceptional fossil record made up of a succession of biological assemblages.	UNESCO sheet
The wadden sea	Mixed	(viii) (ix) (x)	The Wadden Sea is considered the world's largest uninterrupted system of mudflats and tidal sandbanks. The site includes the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area, the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein and most of the Danish Wadden Sea Conservation Area. This temperate coastal wetland ecosystem is the result of particularly complex interactions between physical and biological factors. There is a multitude of transitional habitats here: tidal channels, sandbanks, seagrass meadows, mussel beds, sandbars, mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, beaches and dunes. The area is home to many species of plants and animals, including marine mammals such as harbor seals, gray seals and harbor porpoises. The site is one of the last large-scale natural intertidal ecosystems where natural processes continue in an almost undisturbed manner.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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