Aarhus is a very interesting city full of life. Located by the sea, with a lovely beach and a walking path along the shore. Aarhus will surprise you with its energetic atmosphere, tastes, attractions and modernity. The city offers us a whole range of interesting places worth visiting. You will find interesting museums, beautiful green areas, and unique architecture – places that cannot be missed. Check out what’s worth seeing in Aarhus!
Aarhus is the second largest city in Denmark. An important seaport and railway junction. Aarhus is located on the Jutland Peninsula in the Central Jutland region. The city is located on the European Brick Gothic Route.
Sightseeing
Bellevue beach Aarhus
Bellevue beach Aarhus
Bellevue Beach is located on the outskirts of Aarhus, in Risskov, 4 kilometers north of the city center. This beautiful beach is very comfortable because it has the finest sand and almost no stones in the water. This is a beach for everyone: older people, children, couples and adults.
Den Gamle By
Den Gamle By
Den Gamle By is an open-air urban museum in Aarhus that aims to illustrate Danish urban culture. The museum consists of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 settlements across Denmark. The main attraction is the city with all its buildings, but most of the buildings can also be visited. The rooms in many buildings are decorated in an original style, and some host temporary exhibitions on specific topics.
Tivoli Friheden
Tivoli Friheden
Tivoli Friheden offers everything exciting and providing adrenaline and great fun, including roller coasters, a playground for children, mini golf, bumper cars, a haunted house and many other interesting attractions. Start your treasure hunt and find as many secret chests as you can. Try Cobra – a roller coaster with a maximum speed of 70 km/h that will surely make your heart race. Also jump into the Sky Tower – the greatest challenge for true daredevils, which is guaranteed to make your heart beat faster. By jumping from a 40-meter tower, you will experience a true free fall as you go down.
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
ARoS is a cultural center and one of the largest museums of this type in Northern Europe. The building is part of a public artery connecting the city’s two cultural centers.
Dokk1
Dokk1
Dokk1 represents a new generation of modern hybrid libraries. Situated at the mouth of the Aarhus River, the building also houses a citizen service center, office space, fully-subterranean automated parking for 1,000 cars, a light rail transit station, and a new harbor-side public square. Dokk1 is the largest construction project by the municipality of Aarhus in the city’s history.
The Infinite Bridge
The bridge is part of the art project “Sculpture by the Sea” from 2015. The bridge that it became a permanent installation and can be used from May to October. A very nice place with a good beach. A little further out there is the animal garden with fallow deer and cica deer that are so tame that they can be hand fed and remember to bring carrots and apples.
Greenhouses in the Botanical Garden Aarhus
Greenhouses in the Botanical Garden Aarhus
The Botanical Garden is open to the public all the year round and is well worth a visit in all seasons of the year. The garden section contains plants from the different habitats found in Denmark, placed in groups so you can see what grows where. There is also a special section containing the best known medicinal plants. A rockery situated in the centre of the Botanical Garden displays plants from many mountainous regions from the entire world.
Marselisborg
Marselisborg
Marselisborg Palace is the Summer and Christmas residence of the Danish Royal family. When the Royal family is in residence at the Palace, the Changing of the Guard by the Life Guard takes place at noon every day. The Palace grounds, including the Queen’s rose garden, are open to the public when the Royal family is not in residence.
Marselisborg Deer Park
Marselisborg Deer Park is a 22 hectares enclosed woodland area in the northern parts of the Marselisborg Forests. Marselisborg Deer Park is not a deer park in the original sense, as it is not meant for hunting deer. The idea is more like a small safari park, but just presenting a few common species, without exotic animals. Initially sika deer were introduced to graze the curvy open woodland hills, but later roe deer and wild boars has been added. The park was established in 1932 and have since been enlarged several times. It is owned and administered by the Aarhus Municipality. The deer park is open and free for public access year round in the day-light hours, although the following visits are discouraged: June-July. Here the female does are nursing their young calves. The does show protective behaviour and might attack humans that come too close.
Viking Museum Aarhus
Viking Museum Aarhus
Aarhus – or Aros as the town was called in the Viking Age – emerged around the 10th century. Its name means ”the mouth of the river”, and refers to the town’s location by the mouth of Aarhus Å (Aarhus River). Aarhus’s position here on the river valley made it a key point in Jutland. Adam of Bremen mentions the town in the AD 1070s, and refers to it as a central seafaring town with connections to Funen, Zealand, Scania and Norway.
The Viking Museum is located in the basement underneath the Nordea Bank in Skt. Clemens Torv’ Square. During an exhibition tour through the museum, new textual contents, a modern interior with new posters and exhibition cases, and improved lighting will present the evidence about the Viking town Aros past the last 1200 years. Also, you will find sound pictures have been added, and there is now a TV screen showing an animation of a Viking attack on Århus. You can also explore a detailed model of the city Aarhus at the time of Harold Bluetooth – around 980.
