{"id":107921,"date":"2026-06-15T05:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/107921\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:56:32","slug":"sands-of-time-denmarks-sculpture-festival-goes-back-to-the-middle-ages-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/107921\/","title":{"rendered":"Sands of time: Denmark&#8217;s sculpture festival goes back to the Middle Ages for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  By&amp;nbsp<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/profiles\/66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokunbo Salako<\/a>&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP <\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            15\/06\/2026 &#8211; 7:16 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>Kings, knights and dragons are rising from the sand in the Danish town of Hundested at its annual Sand Sculpture Festival. <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Sculptors from Europe and beyond are recreating scenes of medieval life, myths and legends from the Middle Ages, the inspiration of this year\u2019s theme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We found some local stories from Denmark also. We have a story about a huge market that was in that time,&#8221; said Christian Warrer, organiser of the Hundested Sand Sculpture Festival. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the Middle Age Temu thing. And the carvers, the artists, they really love this theme, because there are so many good pictures and stories in it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sculptors have just days to complete their sandy masterpieces, but the festival runs till mid-October, so durability is key.<\/p>\n<p>That means these gravity-defying creations must be made of stronger stuff than the average sandcastle. Unlike ordinary beach sand, the material used here contains clay, helping it harden almost like stone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not beach sand, but it&#8217;s normal sand from a sand pit. And there is a little bit of clay in it, which means it dries out and gets hard, rock hard, and can stand the rain,&#8221; explained Warrer.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch sculptor Joris Kivits has worked with sand for more than 20 years. His piece, \u201cThe Kings\u2019 Game\u201d, imagines medieval rulers meeting over a game of chess. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did find something about chess and that was kind of lovely because apparently they found out that people, intercultural, they would actually come over in each other&#8217;s house, mainly kings, to play the game of chess.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>More than 60,000 people are expected to visit the sculptures this year. <\/p>\n<p>The Hundested Sand Sculpture Festival in Denmark is on until 18 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Video editor \u2022 Yolaine De Kerchove Dexaerde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspTokunbo Salako&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP Published on 15\/06\/2026 &#8211; 7:16 GMT+2 Kings, knights and dragons are rising from the sand in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[7483,27,26,3002,54703],"class_list":["post-107921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-creative","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-exhibition","tag-sand-sculpture"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116752586368718253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}