Visitors may scale the stairs to the top of the tower of the Romanesque cathedral in Ribe, Denmark’s oldest cathedral in its oldest town. The Domkirke is also famous for its apse decorated by Carl Henning Pedersen. The magnificent Ribe Cathedral (Domkirke) is the most-impressive Romanesque building in Denmark and the only church in the country with five naves. It is also … [Read more...]
Visit the Trapholt Museum of Modern Art in Kolding, Denmark
The Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design on the banks of the Kolding fjord is one of the most popular museums in Denmark. The Trapholt museum for moderne kunst, design og kunsthåndværk (modern art, design and crafts) is one Denmark’s best-known modern art museums. It is famous for having the largest collection of designer chairs in Denmark but most of the galleries … [Read more...]
Visit Renaissance Egeskov Slot Castle in Denmark
Romantic Egeskov Slot is a living castle with fun park for families, museums, and beautiful gardens located on the island Funen near Odense in Denmark. Renaissance Egeskov Slot is an impossibly romantic moated castle with one of the most beautiful gardens in Denmark. It is a truly family-friendly destination with a very large fun park, a variety of play areas, a treetop … [Read more...]
Visit the Viking Trelleborg Fortress in Denmark
Harald Bluetooth’s Trelleborg is the best-preserved Viking ring fortress in Denmark and worth a stopover when driving from Copenhagen to Odense and Fyn. The Trelleborg Fortress is one of the best-known and most-important Viking-era sites near Copenhagen in Denmark. The main attraction is the well-preserved ramparts of the round Viking fortress erected by Harald Bluetooth … [Read more...]
Visit the Hans Christian Andersen Museums in Odense, Denmark
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum, birthplace and childhood house are the top sights to see in Odense on the island Fyn in Denmark. Hans Christian Andersen is the most-famous Dane ever and the museum in his hometown Odense is amongst the most-popular sights to visit in Denmark. The Hans Christian Andersen Museum gives a comprehensive overview of the life and times of … [Read more...]
Visit the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus in Denmark
The Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus in Denmark is one of Scandinavia’s best with prehistory (Bronze / Iron / Vikings Ages) and anthropology exhibitions. The Moesgaard Museum (MoMu) is a superb archaeological and ethnographic museum near the city Aarhus on the Danish Jutland peninsula. The prehistory exhibitions concentrates on especially Danish archaeology with superb … [Read more...]
Visit the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark
The ARoS in Aarhus is as famous for its art as for its modern museum building with a colorful panorama ring on the roof and Guggenheim-style staircase. The ARos is one of Denmark’s best art museum with particularly good temporary modern art exhibitions to complement its large Danish art collection. The ARoS is famous for the colorful rainbow panorama circular walkway on its … [Read more...]
Visit Den Gamle By Open-Air Museum in Aarhus
Den Gamle By in Aarhus in Denmark is a large family-friendly open-air museum with typical historic old town buildings from the 1700s to the mid-1970s. Around 75 buildings here showed Danish town life in bygone years. Buildings range from poorhouses to noble town palaces with many open to visitors and furnished typically for the period and original use. Depending on the season, … [Read more...]
Visit the Viking Burial Ship Museum in Ladby in Denmark
The Vikingemuseet Ladby in Denmark is the only place in the world where a Viking burial ship may be seen in its original position inside a burial mount. This is also the only burial ship in Denmark that survived from the Viking period. In truth, very little of the Viking king’s burial ship survived. Visitors see mostly the imprint left by the planks – the wood long since rotten … [Read more...]
Travel by Cheap IC Bus from Berlin to Rostock and Copenhagen
© Uwe Miethe / Deutsche Bahn The IC Bus does not currently run on this routing! Flixbus offers cheap alternatives or us the train. The IC Bus of German Railways is a cheap alternative to Deutsche Bahn trains for traveling from Berlin to Kopenhagen / København in Denmark via Rostock. The daily IC Bus covers the journey in 7h30 – around the same time that trains take but … [Read more...]