Simrishamn Municipality

municipality in Skåne County, Sweden

national park

nordic bronze age grave in Kivik, southern Sweden

thumb|Glimmingehus, entrance of the castle. Glimmingehus is a medieval era castle located at Simrishamn Municipality, Scania in southern Sweden. It is the best preserved medieval stronghold in Scandinavia. It was built 1499–1506, during an era when Scania formed a vital part of Denmark, and contains many defensive arrangements of the era, such as parapets, false doors and dead-end corridors, 'murder-holes' for pouring boiling pitch over the attackers, moats, drawbridges and various other forms of death traps to surprise trespassers and protect the nobles against peasant uprisings. The lower pa

building in Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden

building in Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden

church building in Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden

thumb|Ruins Gladsaxehus (; earlier Gladsaxehus, also Glathsax or Glatzsax) is a ruined castle in Gladsax parish, in the Simrishamn Municipality of Skåne in south-eastern Sweden. The ruins lie immediately to the east of the church and cemetery of Gladsax.