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Famous Landmarks in Denmark: 6 Sites Worth Seeing

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.

From the same hand-researched library as our Denmark itinerary. Last reviewed 2026-08-08.

Copenhagen

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.

1
Tivoli Gardens
The 1843 pleasure garden in the middle of the city that Walt Disney visited and learned from. Wooden rollercoaster, gardens, and evening concerts. Seasonal. Check the calendar.
Copenhagen
2
Rosenborg Castle
A Renaissance royal summer house holding the Danish crown jewels in its basement, set in the King's Garden where the whole city sits out in June.
Copenhagen
3
Round Tower
A 1642 observatory with a spiral ramp instead of stairs, built so the king could ride a horse to the top. Still the oldest working observatory in Europe.
Copenhagen
4
The Little Mermaid
Andersen's statue on a rock in the harbour since 1913. It is genuinely small, always crowded, and worth ten minutes on the way to somewhere else. Everyone finds this out; better to know first.
Copenhagen

Aarhus

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.

5
Aarhus Cathedral
The longest and tallest church in Denmark, begun around 1200, with frescoes uncovered from under whitewash applied at the Reformation.
Aarhus
6
Infinite Bridge
A circular wooden pier walking out into the bay and back: seasonal, installed each summer, and the most photographed structure in the city for good reason.
Aarhus

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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