Silderuten

Silderuten (the Herring Route) is a historic town walk in Stege on Møn with 30 stops guiding visitors around the medieval town centre. The route is named after the herring trade that brought Stege its greatest era of prosperity: from around 1430 to 1530, Møn's stalls at Falsterbo and Skanør accounted for a third of all Danish stalls. The town's name is said to derive from the Old Norse word for stakes driven into the ground — a sea barrier Saxo Grammaticus refers to as 'the Iron Lock at Stikae'. The route starts at House of Møn, Storegade, and passes Mølleporten, the old town hall by M.G. Bindesbøll, the Latin School, Kammerrådgården and Stege Church. Free; see silderuten.dk.