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Aarhus

Description: Denmark’s youngest city

Newest Review: ... some nice parks, clean streets and a more relaxed feeling than the capital. We stayed at Aarhus Camping (reviewed), arrived by train from Copenhagen which cost a bomb taking into account the distance (we'd previously tried to hitchhike the route unsuccesfully) and left by plane to London (airport reviewed). We had a day to kill before our flight home and that's the only reason we had come ... more

... to Aarhus, we did a fair bit of sightseeing on a tight budget to make up for the previous days expensive train journey. What I would recommend you to do is the following: Start off by heading passed the University and down to the Botanical gardens by t...more

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Aarhus - No Aardvark's but a pleasant queen! (614 words)
by - written on 17/06/08 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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History --------- Aarhus is known as the oldest big city in Scandanavia, it's central location giving it trading possibilities in the old times with Germany, the Baltics and the nearby Danish islands to Jutland. It dates back some 1300 years to the Viking times but was generally a fairly small settlement until the 1920's when it finally replaced Alborg as the biggest town on Jutland. The town was taxed extortionatally by the Swedes in the 17th century and suffered the plague as well as attacks from the Germans, it has generally stood reasonably strongly though. My Experience ============= Having heard a lot of good things about ... Read the complete review