The essentials of Denmark in one week
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Copenhague ?
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How to get there - Copenhague
Copenhagen
Steps: Copenhague
For a first glimpse, stroll through the historic center along the Strøget, from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv, with a few forays into the alleys of the Latin Quarter. A walk to get your bearings, punctuated by a break or two at one of Nyhavn's many cafés. Continue to the winter house of the royal family - Amalienborg - where you will greet the guards, the relief is assured at noon sharp! Take a look at the Marble Church and then head to the Little Mermaid and the Citadel for a bucolic stop. A must see! Finally, if you want to end your day with a shopping spree, chic awaits you in Bredgade where you'll find antique stores, contemporary furniture and art galleries while design and creativity are concentrated around Kongens Nytorv. Stroll along the pedestrian and shopping street Strøget where the famous Illum shopping center is located.
Places of interest : BREDGADE KONGENS NYTORV
Copenhagen
Steps: Copenhague
This is a good opportunity to try your hand at cycling beyond the harbour into the Christianshavn district (on the eponymous island) and into the "free city" of Christiania, where the spirit of the Sixties survives as best you can. Cross back over to Castle Island (Slotsholmen) and the Black Diamond. The visit to Christianborg takes a good half day to fully appreciate. If you have enough time before 5pm, make a foray into the National Museum, focusing on the Danish archaeology section on the ground floor (rune stones, Viking heritage). In the evening, a symphonic concert at the Det Kongelige Opera House may be considered.
Places of interest : CHRISTIANIA
Copenhagen
It's time to tackle one of the great art museums: the Glyptothek Ny Carlsberg, which houses works by illustrious painters of Impressionism and the Danish Golden Age, as well as the antique collections of Palmyra. Another suggestion is the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK or National Art Museum) dedicated to Fine Arts, where Modigliani, Picasso, Braque and Matisse rub shoulders with contemporary Danish masters such as painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg or sculptor Carl Bonnesen. To get some fresh air after your choice of museum in the morning, a cruise in the harbor, a visit to the Tivoli amusement park or the royal park of Rosenborg will close this cultural marathon day!
North Seeland
Steps: Roskilde
From North to South, from East to West, it will be an opportunity to discover the Øresund, to breathe the sea air of the North Sea or to put a foot in the refreshing waters of the Baltic while watching from the corner of your eye the ferries coming from the neighboring Sweden! Here again, it's all a question of desire. First in Elsinore, where the memory of Hamlet hovers in the air if not that of Shakespeare. Then in more confidential but easily accessible places like Ringstedt, Karen Blixen's stronghold. Or why not Ordrupgaard, where you can admire the superb "organic" building designed by Zaha Hadid, whose sinuosity contrasts with the angularity of the Arken Museum in Ishøj? Roskilde, with its cathedral and royal pantheon, its museum of Viking ships; Hillerød and its royal Renaissance castle-Fredericksborg; or the fabulous Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (except on Mondays), which is one of the most beautiful in Europe (permanent and temporary exhibitions).
Places of interest : ORDRUPGAARD
Fionie
Steps: Odense
You are now on your way to Fionie, an island well named the Garden of Denmark. Many castles and manors were built there, surrounded by remarkable gardens. Among the most notable, the castle of Egeskov, as romantic as one could wish, built in the middle of a lake, or the one of Valdemar and its exceptional view on the sea..
Breathe in the atmosphere of Kerteminde, a small village far from the tourist crowds, authentic to the core. Stop in Ladby to discover the only tomb ship in Denmark. Pass by the H. C. Andersen Museum in Odense and relive the enchanted world of the famous storyteller before strolling through the old and charming district of his birthplace, around the gothic cathedral of Saint-Knud, very lively in the evening, or dine at Storms Pakhus, the street-food market where you can enjoy world cuisine
