Five kilometres south of central Allinge, on the southern outskirts of the small village of Olsker, is the highest (26m) and most slender of the island’s four round churches. If you take the inland bus 1 between Rønne and Allinge, you can stop off en route.
Olsker Rundkirke
Bornholm
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