Sorø
Sorø is a town in Sorø municipality on the island of Zealand in east Denmark with a population of 8,433. It lies on the northeastern shore of Sorø Lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,960 residents
- Description: town in Sorø municipality in Region Sjælland, Denmark
- Also known as: “Sorö”
- Postal code: 4180
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sorø Art Museum and Sorø Abbey Church.
Sorø Art Museum
Museum
Photo: Ramblersen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sorø Art Museum is an art museum located in Sorø, Denmark. It displays a representative collection of Danish art as well as a collection of Russian art, covering both painting from 1870 to 1930 and Russian icons, and also hosts special exhibitions both of classical and contemporary art.
Sorø Abbey Church
Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, CC BY 3.0.
Sorø Abbey Church is a church located in the Danish town of Sorø. It was founded by Danish archbishop Absalon and built by Cistercians in the period from 1161 to 1201.
Sorø Museum
Museum
Photo: Ramblersen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sorø Museum is a local history museum in Sorø, Denmark. It is housed within an old inn from 1624, one of the oldest buildings in the town.
Sorø
- Category: locality
- Location: Sorø Municipality, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.4366° or 55° 26′ 12″ northLongitude
11.5629° or 11° 33′ 47″ eastPopulation
7,960Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)United Nations Location Code
DK SROOpen location code
9F7HCHP7+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 26559256OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Western Frisian—“Sorø” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Sorø”
- Armenian: “Սորյո”
- Asturian: “Sorø”
- Azerbaijani: “Soryo”
- Belarusian: “Сорэ”
- Catalan: “Soro”
- Catalan: “Sorø”
- Cebuano: “Sorø”
- Chinese: “Sorø”
- Chinese: “索勒”
- Cornish: “Sorø”
- Czech: “Sorø”
- Danish: “Sorø”
- Dutch: “Soro”
- Dutch: “Sorø”
- Estonian: “Sorö”
- Estonian: “Sorø”
- Finnish: “Sorö”
- Finnish: “Sorø”
- French: “Sorø”
- German: “Sorö”
- German: “Sorø”
- Hebrew: “סורה”
- Hungarian: “Sorø”
- Icelandic: “Sórey”
- Indonesian: “Sorø”
- Irish: “Sorø”
- Italian: “Sorø”
- Japanese: “ソーレ”
- Japanese: “ソレ”
- Korean: “소뢰”
- Latin: “Sora”
- Lithuanian: “Sorė”
- Macedonian: “Соре”
- Malay: “Sorø”
- Northern Frisian: “Sorø”
- Northern Sami: “Sorø”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorø”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sorø”
- Norwegian: “Sorø”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sorø”
- Ossetian: “Сорё”
- Persian: “سورئو”
- Polish: “Soro”
- Polish: “Sorø”
- Portuguese: “Sorø”
- Romanian: “Soro”
- Romanian: “Sorø”
- Russian: “Сорё”
- Serbian: “Соре”
- Slovenian: “Sorø”
- Spanish: “Sorø”
- Swedish: “Sorö”
- Swedish: “Sorø”
- Turkish: “Sorø”
- Ukrainian: “Соро”
- Vietnamese: “Sorø”
- Welsh: “Sorø”
- Western Frisian: “Sorø (plak)”
- Western Frisian: “Sorø”
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