Herrevad Abbey
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Herrevad Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near Ljungbyhed in Klippan Municipality, Scania, in the south of present-day Sweden, but formerly in Denmark until 1658. It is now a country house known as He
Herrevad Abbey
A depiction of the estate in 1680
Ven (Sweden)
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Ven is a Swedish island in the Öresund strait lying between Scania, Sweden and Zealand, Denmark. A part of Landskrona Municipality, Skåne County, the island has an area of 7.5 km2 and 371 inhabitants
Herrevad Abbey
…year. Brahe published his findings at Copenhagen in 1573 and these became the basis for his fame as an astronomer. He later moved onto the island of Hven in the Sound in 1576 where he built the astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory of Uraniborg. Herrevad passed to several other nobles until…
Ven seen from the east
Typical landscape on Ven
Backafall, the south-west coast of Ven
One of the fields of Ven