Travel tips in Denmark

Historic sites

Kronborg Castle, Helsingør

Helsingør, Capital Region of Denmark

A Renaissance castle on the narrowest point of the Øresund strait, where Danish kings collected tolls from passing ships.

Attractions

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebæk, Capital Region of Denmark

One of the world's most loved art museums, in a series of low buildings set in a sculpture park on the coast north of Copenhagen, looking across the …

Attractions

Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark

One of the oldest amusement parks in the world, opened in 1843 in the heart of Copenhagen, with gardens, historic and modern rides, including a woode…

Attractions

Aarhus: ARoS and the Old Town

Aarhus, Central Denmark

Denmark's second city has the ARoS art museum, topped by 'Your rainbow panorama', a circular glass walkway in all the colours of the rainbow, with vi…

Buildings

Frederiksborg Castle

Hillerød, Capital Region of Denmark

The largest Renaissance castle in Scandinavia, built on three islands in a lake at Hillerød by King Christian IV.

Attractions

Legoland Billund

Billund, Southern Denmark

The original Legoland, opened in 1968 next to the Lego factory in Billund, with Miniland, a world of famous buildings made from millions of Lego bric…

Natural features

Møns Klint

Stege, Zealand

White chalk cliffs rising up to 128 m above the Baltic Sea on the island of Møn, a UNESCO biosphere reserve.

Historic sites

Nyhavn, Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark

A 17th-century canal harbour lined with brightly painted townhouses, old wooden ships and busy cafés, the postcard view of Copenhagen.

Historic sites

Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen

Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark

A Renaissance castle built by King Christian IV in the early 1600s, in the King's Garden, Copenhagen's oldest park.

Natural features

Skagen and Grenen

Skagen, North Denmark

At Grenen, the northernmost tip of Denmark, the Skagerrak and the Kattegat seas meet, and you can stand with a foot in each, watching the waves clash.