Tourism in Denmark

Tourism in Denmark is shaped in large part by holiday homes and campsites. A significant portion of tourism takes place in coastal areas, as the country has a comparatively long for its size coast. 2007 were counted 45,603,826 overnight stays.

  • 2.1 Cities and towns
  • 2.2 Baltic Sea
  • 2.3 North Sea

Traffic

In Denmark there is a safety belt and must be driven with dipped headlights during the day. The speed limit is city 50 km / h out of town and on highways 80 km / h and on motorways 130 km / h For urban cars and motorcycle trailers / caravans, trucks and buses a top speed of 50 km / h ( even if the local signage allows a higher speed), extra urban of 70 km / h and on highways of 80 km / h The blood alcohol limit is 0.5. About the Danish traffic rules informed the Danish Tourist Office VisitDenmark on its website (see links ) and the various motoring.

Transport links

A dense network of ferries and bridges connecting the Danish islands, so that traveling from island to island can become a holiday experience, especially since each island landscape has its own character.

Road links to the German - Danish border near Flensburg

  • Autobahn A 7 ( Jutland line), which runs the state border towards Denmark in Harrislee and continues as European route 45 towards Kolding
  • Federal highway 200 which leads than bypass through the city of Flensburg to the border with Kruså

Important bridges

  • Great Belt Bridge over the Great Belt of Funen to Zealand (toll road )
  • Oresund Bridge in Copenhagen over the Oresund to Sweden (toll road )
  • Two bridges ( Den gamle & Den nye Little Belt ) in Middelfart (near Kolding ) from Jutland to Funen

Important ferry routes

  • The A1 / B207 of Fehmarn to Rødbyhavn on Lolland, which Vogelfluglinie
  • Via the A19 from Warnemünde to Gedser on Falster
  • About the Danish Primærrute 8 ( Kruså - Sønderborg ) Fynshav ( Als ) to Bøjden ( Fyn )
  • About the Danish Primærrute 9 Spodsbjerg ( Langeland ) to Tårs ( Lolland )
  • About the Danish Primærrute 6 ( Roskilde ) across the Sound of Elsinore to Helsingborg, Sweden

Tunnel connection

  • It is planned to build a 18 km long immersed tunnel between Puttgarden on the island of Fehmarn and the Danish Rodby Schleswig-Holstein on Lolland. The travel time between Hamburg and Copenhagen should be reduced to about 3 hours. The Danish Parliament has approved the proposal in February 2011, the work is expected to start in 2014 and be completed in 2020. The project is very controversial on the island of Fehmarn. Denmark intends to finance the construction costs, estimated at 5.1 billion euros alone. For the German side connection costs to fall on land that is officially estimated at 800 million euros. According to the Federal Court, they would rise to 1.7 billion euros.

Destinations

Equally popular with sailors and campers is the Danish Southern Seas, the area in the Baltic Sea are the two main Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. Also popular are Denmark's beautiful coastline with long white beaches of the North Sea and Skagerrak and the sometimes rocky on the Baltic Sea, all freely accessible without tax and interesting cities with many attractions, museums and historical buildings.

Information on travel routes and sights obtained on the website of the Danish Tourist Office VisitDenmark ( see Related links ), before the local tourist offices ( Tourist Office, Features: i) as well as in the various automobile clubs. In addition, there are in German language in numerous guidebooks about Denmark, which are available in bookstores or internet trading. The headquarters of Germany VisitDenmark has its headquarters in Hamburg.

Cities and towns

  • Aalborg: a city on the Limfjord seaport, the Aalborgschloss ( Ålborghus ), the Holy Spirit Monastery in 1437 and excavations in the present area of more than 1000 years old settlement
  • Aarhus with the open-air museum Den Gamle By ( The Old Town), the Aarhus Cathedral with a high altar by Bernt Notke, the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus Harbour, and more
  • Billund, a world for children is the theme park Legoland
  • Helsingør with the port of Helsingør and Kulturværftet, the Marienlyst Castle and the World Heritage Kronborg Castle
  • Hirtshals: Hirtshals Havn in the North Sea Oceanarium is the largest saltwater aquarium in Europe.
  • Jelling: with his runes ( World Heritage Site) of the old Danes kings Gorm and Harald Bluetooth
  • Copenhagen, the capital on the Oresund with Tivoli Gardens, the old harbor Nyhavn, the City Hall Square and the landmark The Little Mermaid
  • Odense, the birthplace of the famous poet and author Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark
  • Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark, with a well-preserved old town ( Ribe Cathedral of 1130, the Town Hall and Dominican monastery from the 13th to 15th centuries )
  • Roskilde: Roskilde Cathedral (World Heritage Site) and the Roskilde Festival
  • Sønderborg, with its museums and old buildings is characterized by an exceptionally beautiful location at the entrance of the Alsensunds in the Flensburg Fjord. On the outskirts Düppeler the mill and the battlefield is Diippel
  • Skagerrak, the northern tip of Jutland with the imposing Råbjerg Mile wide and navigable by automobiles beaches
  • Skagen: Kattegat and Skagerrak meet with the Baltic and the North Sea to the headland Grenen. In the Skagen Museum are located about 1,100 impressionistic works of the former artists' group of the Skagen painters.

Southern Denmark is the main target for binational marriage refugees, because the requirements are minimal.

Baltic Sea

The coastline on the Baltic Sea is due to the islands and fjords, much longer than those of the North Sea. Here you can find many part also smaller campsites and holiday house settlements close to the beach. The tidefreien beaches often bordering meadows, forests or cliffs and are sometimes a bit rocky.

Important Islands

  • Alsen (Danish: As ) with the main town Sonderburg on the Flensburg Fjord. Worth the Industrial Museum Danfoss in Nordborg
  • Ærø, particularly idyllic and typically Danish. Car ferry connections from Als, Funen and Langeland
  • Bornholm, mild climate and many ancient sites, with ferry from Ystad and Sassnitz
  • Funen is the second largest Danish island with Odense (Denmark's third largest city)
  • Langeland, interesting through a series of prehistoric monuments
  • Lolland, the flat island with significant forests is part of the bird's flight line. There are ancient sites with special status
  • Lyø, idyllic island with one of the most beautiful villages of Denmark
  • Møn, known by the steep chalk cliffs of Møn Klint
  • Zealand, Denmark's largest island with the capital Copenhagen to reach across the bird's flight line or the Great Belt Bridge. With the Copenhagen International Airport and the ferry and bridge to Sweden Oresund Region is the metropolitan region of Denmark

North Sea

All along the North Sea coast with its wide navigable by automobiles beaches, there are many vacation homes and sometimes large campsites.

Important Islands

  • Fano, the northernmost of the Danish Wadden Sea islands can be reached by a ferry from the port and industrial city of Esbjerg. The very wide sandy beach and wide dunes extend the entire west coast. The island is heavily influenced by tourism.
  • Romo is also part of the Danish Wadden Sea Islands and is about the toll-free Rømødæmningen (German: Romo dam, length: 9170 m) from the Jutland mainland or by ferry from Sylt to achieve. There are many vacation homes in different price range and some hotels.

Food and Drink

As specialties are beer ( Carlsberg, Tuborg or faxes), the typical red sausages ( rød pølse ), the national dish of smørrebrød, red fruit jelly, hot dogs or fish dishes (for example, gravlax ).

Currency

The Danish currency is called crown, abbreviation DKK or outdated DKr (1 Danish Krone = 100 Øre ), it is bound with a fluctuation band of ± 2.25 percent fixed to the euro.

Exchange rate:

The purchasing power of the euro in Denmark is 0.78 (May 2009). For vacationers the means to live more expensive. Since this value is calculated using the so-called cart, but he makes only limited to the items of daily use.

The smallest coin is the 50 - øre piece. Prices may be parts of it and be rounded up or down with cash, but calculated exactly with credit card payment on the Øre.

Since October 1, 2008 there is no longer the 25 - øre piece. All transactions take the 25 - øre - piece not to, but you could until 2011 at the Bank to redeem his 25 - øre pieces.

Curiosities

Caused a sensation in 2009, an advertising campaign from Visit Denmark, where a Danish woman, Karen should encourage tourism by propagating the alleged slight willingness of Danish women for one-night stand without a condom.

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