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TOURIST GUIDE TO SIGHTS, TOUR ACTIVITIES, ATTRACTIONS, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION - DENMARK .
Denmark , Dan. Danmark, borders on Germany in the south, the North Sea in the west, the Skagerrak in the north, and the Kattegat and the Øresund in the east. Copenhagen is Denmark's capital, largest city, and chief industrial center. In addition to the capital, other important cities include Ålborg, Århus, Esbjerg, Frederiksberg and Gentofte (suburbs of Copenhagen), Lyngby, Odense, and Roskilde.
About Denmark
Denmark, the most southern Scandinavian country, includes over 400 individual islands, most connected by bridges, and linked by an efficient ferry system.
The Jutland Peninsula and the entire country is mostly low, flat land, averaging only 100 ft. (300m) above sea level.
Denmark is known worldwide for its dairy, livestock and commercial fishing industries, and for trend-setting wind-turbine electricity generators.
Tourism thrives in Denmark, especially in Copenhagen, a stylish city of museums, nitelife and fabulous shopping. Legoland Park and Tivoli are magnets for children of all ages.
Copenhagen is one of Europe's most manageable capitals: it takes just thirty minutes to walk across the compact centre, and the wealth of green spaces and pedestrianized areas makes exploring the city a relaxed and thoroughly civilized experience. The historic core of the city is the small district of Slotsholmen , originally the site of the twelfth-century castle from which Copenhagen derived its earliest wealth and now home to the city's highest concentration of historic buildings, foremost among them the huge royal and governmental complex of Christiansborg. Facing Slotsholmen over the Slotsholmen Kanal is the medieval maze of Indre By , the bustling heart of the modern city, traversed by Strøget, the world's longest pedestrianized street, and packed with an abundance of swish cafés, shops and bars, and an eclectic clutch of museums and churches. On the opposite side of Slotsholmen from Indre By, the island of Christianshavn - popularly known as "Little Amsterdam" on account of its Dutch-style canals and gabled houses - was built on reclaimed land in the seventeenth century. It's now one of the inner city's most relaxed and bohemian areas, and is also home to the "free city" of Christiania, Copenhagen's famous alternative-lifestyle community.
Northeast of Indre By, the fairy-tale palace of Rosenborg , one of several royal residences in the city, sits at the heart of the inner city's greenest area, with the immaculate lawns of Kongens Have and the lush greenhouses of the Botanisk Have close by. Abutting Kongens Have are the wide, aristocratic streets of Frederikstad , Frederik V's royal quarter, dominated by the huge dome of the Marmorkirke church and centred on the royal palaces of Amalienborg, while just to the north are the green ramparts of Kastellet , Europe's oldest working military fort. Back across Indre By to the south is the city's transport and entertainment hub, grouped around the famous Tivoli pleasure gardens, close to both the city's main transport terminus, Central Station, and its main square, Rådhuspladsen.
Ringing the centre are a series of distinctive and contrasting inner-city areas: to the west, down-at-heel, multicultural Vesterbro , home to the city's red-light district, next to the genteel, villa-lined streets of Frederiksberg , where you'll also find another royal palace, Frederiksberg Slot, and the city's zoo. To the north is the formerly working-class but increasingly gentrified district of Nørrebro , centred on the trendy bars and restaurants of Skt Hans Torv and Blågårdsgade. East of Nørrebro, snooty Østerbro is home to Copenhagen's old money, as well as the national football stadium Parken and the city centre's largest open space, Fælled Park.
Known as "the Garden of Denmark", partly for the lawn-like neatness of its fields, partly for the immense amounts of fruit and vegetables which come from them, Funen is the smaller of the two main Danish islands. The pastoral outlook of the place and the coastline draw many visitors, but its attractions are mainly low-profile cultural sights, such as the various collections of the "Funen painters" and the birthplaces of writer Hans Christian Andersen and composer Carl Nielsen. Odense, Denmark's third city, is easily the island's main urban attraction. Close to this, the former fishing town of Kerteminde retains some faded charm, and is near the Ladby Boat, an important Viking relic.
Long ago, the people of Jutland, the Jutes, were a separate tribe from the more warlike Danes who occupied the eastern islands. In pagan times, the peninsula had its own rulers and much power, and it was here that the legendary ninth-century monarch Harald Bluetooth began the process that turned the two tribes into a unified Christian nation. By the dawn of the Viking era, however, the battling Danes had spread west, absorbing the Jutes, and real power gradually shifted towards Zealand. This is where it has largely stayed, making unhurried lifestyles and rural calm the overriding impression of Jutland for most visitors; indeed, its distance from Copenhagen makes it perhaps the most distinct and interesting area in the country. In the south, Schleswig is a territory long battled over by Denmark and Germany, though beyond the immaculately restored town of Ribe it holds little of abiding interest. Esbjerg, further north, is dull too, but as a major ferry port you might well pass through. The old military stronghold of Fredericia is worth a brief stop before reaching Århus halfway up the eastern coast, Jutland's main urban centre and Denmark's second city. Further inland, the landscape is the country's most dramatic - stark heather-clad moors, dense forests and swooping gorges. Ancient Viborg is the best base for this, from where you can head north to vibrant Aalborg, on the southern bank of the Limfjord, which cuts deep into Jutland this far north - across which the landscape reaches a crescendo of storm-lashed savagery around Skagen, on the very tip of the peninsula. Frederikshavn, on the way, is the port for boats to Norway and Sweden.
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