Beyond the capital and the bigger cities, Denmark offers a mix of lively towns such as Ribe and Odense plus rural countryside, medieval churches, Renaissance castles and tidy 18th-century villages. Neolithic dolmen, preserved 2000-year-old ‘bog people´, and impressive Viking ruins are just some of the remnants of the nation´s long and fascinating history.

The right image shows the famous Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen's childhood home in Odense

Denmark continues to stamp its effortlessly cool style on the world with its furniture, fashion, architecture and graphic design, as it has done for the last half-century or so. This obsession with good design, detail and fine craftsmanship is evident even in something as mundane as a Copenhagen metro or train ride.

Centuries on from the Viking era, Denmark remains very much a maritime nation, bordered by the Baltic and the North Sea. No place in the country is more than an hour´s drive from its lovely seashore, much of which is lined with splendid white-sand beaches.

Denmark´s hydrocarbon-rich economy is booming it has the highest per capita GDP in the European Union (EU) literacy is 100% unemployment is low and its social-welfare programmes are the envy of continents. Education is free, and about half of all Danish students who graduate from secondary school continue on to higher education.

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If you love castles, Denmark has almost as many fairy tale castles as it does fairy tales! Visit the picturesque region of  North Zealand just outside Copenhagen where you will find Elsinore and Kronborg Castle made famous as the setting of Shakepspeare s Hamlet as well as the magnificent Fredensborg Palace and Frederiksborg Castle.

Leave Copenhagen behind as you head north through magnificent Danish countryside and coastline towards Elsinore and Kronborg Castle. Chosen as the setting for Shakespeare s Hamlet, this magnificent renaissance castle is on the UNESCO world heritage list.

Visit Fredensborg, where the Queen s summer residence of Fredensborg Palace is attractively located in the middle of a lovely park, bordering the idyllic Esrum Lake.

The next highlight, visit Hilleroed - on your tour is Frederiksborg Castle, built by King Christian IV in 1601 - 1625. This pearl of history, built in magnificent Renaissance style with a touch of baroque, is now a national historical museum, containing treasures of painting, tapestry, porcelain, silver and furniture.

Art and culture:  Denmark is world famous for its innovative design and art. Louisiana, by the waterfront, north of Copenhagen, is famous for its exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. South of Copenhagen on Køge Bay, there is the multi-museum Arken and at the Danish Design Centre you will find a mixture of ceramic, lamps, furnitures and architecture. Ordrupsgaard vites to enjoy both art of French Impressionsists and art of modern architecture

Visit Odense, the Hans Christian Andersen museum in the old city precinct and learn all about the fantastic life of  Hans Christian Andersen. The exhibitions give an indepth impression of  Hans Christian Andersen as a person as well as the world he lived in from 1805 to 1875.

Hans Christian Andersen Museum Odense Admire a large selection of the writer's papercuts and drawings as well as a comprehensive book collection from the whole world.

Or the new Hans Christian Andersen Museum Copenhagen

Copenhagen restaurant Noma has been named the best restaurant in the world. It s The S. Pellegrino World s 50 Best Restaurants behind the crowning of restaurant Noma in the past year has been very successful to specialize in Nordic cuisine.

Our intention at noma is to create and to prepare a distinctly advanced kind of cuisine, while nonetheless conjoining our patently Nordic approach with a manner of purity and simplicity in the approach. We are also busy infusing our new Nordic cuisine with a markedly curative potential. These values are all reflected in our menus´ ultimate articulation and manifest themselves both in the construction and presentation of the individual courses and in the means of preparation and ingredients upon which they are based. Book your table

Copenhagen is still Scandinavia s gastronomic capital. The Michelin Guide in 2010 have 12 Copenhagen restaurants  together 13 Michelin stars. Restaurant AOC is new to the list.

Nordic food best international
The past decade, the Nordic kitchen experienced a comeback of the very big thanks to Copenhagen s top restaurants.

With a focus on pure Danish and Nordic ingredients and innovative cuisine has been the city s restaurateurs international gourmet writers and critics to turn the spotlight towards Copenhagen. Book your table at noma

One of the restaurateurs are René Redzepi, whose restaurant Noma has retained its two stars in the Michelin Guide 2010th

Visit Region Sealand / Zealand

Visit Knuthenborg Safari Park - Northern Europe s largest wildlife park, animal park - you can drive by car around among the animals and thus get close to giraffes, rhinos, monkeys, ostriches and antelopes.

Lolland and Falster are known for their long coastline, which is 600 km and offers many delightful and especially child-friendly beaches. On the east coast of Falster in towns Elkenøre, Sille troupe, Marielyst and Bøtø there is a 25km long sandy beach where there is room for everyone.

Roskilde Domkirke, Visit Denmark's most important church, both in the architectural context and the historical monuments that reflect the history of Denmark from the Middle Ages to today. Roskilde Domkirke Church exterior is marked by the many outbuildings, which over time has transformed the north and south original form, use of red brick, like the church has created a certain context. The interior presents itself as a highly cultured room, vaulted from the beginning and basically unchanged. As the burial church for the Danish royal family holds the burials including Margaret first and Christian 1 and all Danish kings and queens in the chapel are frescoes from various periods, the oldest is from ca. 1250, the church came in 1995 at the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. That same year opened a cathedral museum in the Great Hall of the Twelfth Chapel.

Visit Southern Denmark

Visit Billund

Be among the first to enjoy the world´s best mini holiday at the new LEGOLAND Billund Resort – a paradise for children and their parents. Experience the best from LEGO, LEGOLAND and Lalandia, including pirates, cowboys and Vikings, and have the time of your life trying out the more than 50 rides and attractions. Or how about some water fun at the Lalandia Aquadome? It´s a tropical El Dorado for the whole family.

Stay in the heart of LEGOLAND
When you stay at Hotel LEGOLAND and buy a Resort Pass, you have unlimited admission to LEGO LAND, Lalandia Aquadome, and Monky Tonky Land during your entire visit! At Hotel LEGO LAND you will find fantastic, brand new Adventure rooms waiting for you, with lots of fun and surprises.  Book your stay here.

We look forward to seeing you in our world full of Lego play!

Visit Central Denmark

As a demanding tourist that you are, for sure you wish to know what Aarhus tourist attractions has to offer. There are many things that you can see and do. First, you should definitely visit one of the important Aarhus tourist attractions, Modelbane Europa, which presents many train railways, passing through high mountains, dark tunnels, great bridges and deep valleys. Eleven tracks keep everything going and the traffic works impeccable. If you thought that this is for real, then you should think again. All this is a miniature and children are allowed to drive those trains. I just mentioned it, as families with children should visit that place, as the children are going to be amazed.

Aarhus, Denmark. It is a great location, with a wonderful climate, with no extremes such as very high or very low temperatures. The summer months bring average temperatures of twenty degrees and the winter brings temperatures around one degree, which means that the climate is more similar with central European countries, than to Scandinavian cities. If you like sunny days, then you should visit Aarhus on summer, since May until August, or September.

Visit Northern Denmark
Skagen, with its rich art, fresh seafood, photogenic neighbourhoods and classic characters, is an utterly delicious slice of In the mid-19th century, artists flocked to Skagen (pronounced Skain), charmed by the radiant light´s impact on the ruggedly beautiful landscape. Now tourists flock here, drawn by an intoxicating combination of a busy working harbour, long sandy beaches and a buzzing holiday atmosphere. Skagen gets packed in summer but maintains every bit of its charm, especially in the intimate, older neighbourhoods, filled with distinctive yellow houses framed by white-picket fences and red-tiled roofs. Catering to the tourist influx are numerous top-notch museums, arts and craft galleries, bike-rental outlets, ice-cream parlours and harbourside restaurants serving fish fresh off the boats. Come and see why half the Danish population lights up whenever the Skagen´s name is mentioned.

Palm Beach Frederikshavn
A day on Palm Beach stays fixed in your memory.

Believe it or not, there are palms on the beach in Frederikshavn, - a hint of Havai - the Caribbean's white sand beaches - beach umbrellas - ice cream parlors and relaxing lounger. There are beach lions but there are no sharks in the water.

Svinkløv badehotel / Svinkløv Beach Hotel
For more than a hundred years, seaside hotels had an almost magical attraction on us. In the first row is they and entices with promises of pampering pleasure and romance. gourmand, stressful Danes and a famous rock guitarist
With North Sea in the front yard is Denmark's most fabled and coveted seaside hotel. Just the name Svinkløv mouth-run in water with gourmets and stressful Danes to sigh with longing.

cell phones are prohibited, which is 8 km to the nearest snack bar and television should look far behind. While time stands still are the good stories in a queue to be told by owner, regulars, neighbors and a famous rock guitarist who use the dunes as a rehearsal room.

Greenland is a part of Denmark and is the world s largest island with a population of only 56.000 distributed among 18 towns and some 60 settlements, none of which are connected by roads.