What does a Renaissance house look like?

Anyone who has visited Aalborg can answer that: It looks just like the old Jens Bangs Stenhus (stone house).

Aalborg’s most famous building - built in 1624 - is actually a superb representative of architectural style from this historic period. And this calls for celebration. 2006 has been proclaimed Renaissance Year in Denmark.

Throughout the year, museums, archives and other cultural entities will focus on this exciting and mysterious chapter in Danish history. It was the time when the great astronomer Tycho Brahe and Christian IV, “the builder king,” lived. When architecture flourished, and science, art and music brought light across a dark Europe. The printing press made knowledge and enlightenment accessible to the common people. But there were also poverty, the plague and witches burning at the stake.