Five days in the country that exported its own idea of comfort to the rest of the world: three in Copenhagen, a capital rebuilt around bicycles and harbour swimming, then across to Aarhus on the Jutland peninsula, younger, cheaper, and quietly the better design city. See the full itinerary.
These are the 6 famous landmarks of Denmark, from Petrel Voyage, a travel app that turns booking confirmations into a day-by-day plan. Each one says what it is and why it matters, grouped by city, and the free 5-day Denmark itinerary fits 5 of them into a day-by-day plan with the transport between cities. One of 45 free landmark guides, readable without an account.
From the same hand-researched library as our Denmark itinerary. Last reviewed 2026-08-08.
A thousand-year-old harbour city that decided sometime in the 1960s to design itself around people instead of cars, and then actually did it. The result is a capital where you swim in the middle of the harbour, cycle across it on dedicated bridges, and eat at the restaurants that rewrote what Nordic food means.
Denmark's second city, founded by Vikings in the 700s and now a university town where a quarter of the population is students. It is cheaper, smaller, and less self-conscious than Copenhagen, and it has the single best contemporary art gesture in the country sitting on its museum roof.
Museums, parks, and neighborhoods are on the full Denmark itinerary, sequenced into a realistic day-by-day plan with transport between cities.
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