Viborg: the cathedral where Danish kings were born

Among Denmark's oldest cities, Viborg was for centuries the site of Danish royal coronations alongside an ancient Viking assembly site.

The center, with its cathedral linked to the birth of Danish kings, is comfortably explored on foot.

The Cathedral of Viborg, rebuilt in the nineteenth century on the foundations of the original Romanesque structure, preserves frescoes tracing the entire Biblical history on its walls.

A few steps away, the hill where the ancient Viking Ting, a legislative assembly of the Viking era, stood remains one of Scandinavia's oldest democratic sites.

Walking along the citys lakes one strolls in Viborg Søndersø, a natural park with trails around two glacial lakes in the heart of the city, popular for seasonal birdwatching.

As evening falls, the pedestrian quarter of the center animates cafés and restaurants in the main square.

Viborg was for centuries the place where Danish kings were proclaimed and sometimes crowned, a role linked to the presence of the Thing, the ancient Viking legislative assembly that made the city a center of royal power legitimation.

Viborg Cathedral houses frescoes created in the early Twentieth century by painter Joakim Skovgaard, considered among Denmark's most ambitious religious fresco cycles, covering every wall of the building.