Just outside the city, on the grassy hillocks of Lindholm, sits this well-preserved Viking burial site of 682 graves. There is a museum that explains the history of the Viking settlement in the region, but it is when you walk the site—with its dramatic and atmospheric stones arranged in circles—that its past comes to life.
Denmark, Jutland, Aalborg region, Viking burial site of Lindholm Hoje
Christophe Boisvieux/© Christophe Boisvieux
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Lindholm Høje
Just outside the city, on the grassy hillocks of Lindholm, sits this well-preserved Viking burial site of 682 graves. There is a museum that explains the history of the Viking settlement in the region, but it is when you walk the site—with its dramatic and atmospheric stones arranged in circles—that its past comes to life.
