Several years ago, I visited Malmo in Sweden with a friend for a day trip from Copenhagen. This was a short train journey away from Copenhagen, and the skies were clear in Denmark but turned to rain on the other side of the water. Well, at first it was cloudy when we arrived to Malmo, but it rained very hard when we finished seeing Malmo Castle. Malmo's Castle was founded in the 1430s, but part of it was destroyed in the early 1500s and then a new one (the current one) built in 1530. It was an important fortress and it was used as a prison in the later 1500s.
The castle is not in a ruined state, so the rooms can be explored. Some of them have been completed with period furnishings. Another part houses a museum. Unfortunately, none of this was in English so we could not read about it. However, the walk around the moated castle was nice, and the iconic bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo can be seen, though it was too hazy to get decent photographs of it.
Near the castle are the little wooden houses that form a fish market, but there was no one around. We'd arrived in the early afternoon.
After the castle, we went to the Science and Martime Museum in Malmo (near the castle) to have a look around. Again, the text was not in English, so we just had a wander around and welcomed keeping out of the downpour. It was raining very hard then.
Have you ever visited Malmo Castle?
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