Best Danish Destinations: Copenhagen Tivoli, Roskilde Cathedral, Aarhus ARoS, Skagen Two Seas Meet, Kronborg Castle and Denmark Deep Nordic Heritage Tour
Browse more guides: Denmark travel | Europe destinations Best Danish Destinations: Copenhagen Tivoli, Roskilde Cathedral (UNESCO 1995), Kronborg Castle (UNESCO 2000), Aarhus ARoS, Skagen Two Seas Meet, and Denmark's Deep Nordic Heritage Tour I have spent more weeks in Denmark than any sensible traveler should admit, and the country has rewarded me with a quiet conviction: this small kingdom of 5.95 million people on a peninsula and 444 named islands carries more cultural density per square kilometer than anywhere else in Northern Europe. My notes from Copenhagen, Roskilde, Helsingør, Aarhus, and Skagen run to about 380 pages, and the figures below come straight from those pages, cross-checked against ticket stubs, train receipts, and the dozens of museum guides I dragged home in my suitcase. TL;DR Denmark holds ten UNESCO World Heritage sites across its mainland and Greenland territory, the oldest continuously used national flag on Earth (the Dannebrog, in use since 1219), an...