Dragsholm Castle: Denmark’s Baroque Palace, Its Royal Prison, and the Earl Who Never Left

The white Baroque palace of Dragsholm Castle in Denmark, seen across snow-covered ground with bare winter trees

About 6 min readBuilt around 1215 on an islet in Zealand, Dragsholm Castle served as a bishop’s palace, a royal prison, and now a hotel — and it is said to be haunted by three figures, the best documented of whom is a Scottish earl who died there in 1578.