Jylland Tourist Information
Denmark’s western peninsula is
the only part of the country that’s naturally connected to mainland Europe. Its
southern boundary is the frontier with Germany. Compared with the smooth land
of Fyn and Sjælland, this Ice Age peninsula is bisected at the north by the
Limfjord and spiked below by Himmelbjerget, the zenith of this modest range,
peaks at 438 feet, while farther south the Yding Skovhøj plateu measures 568
feet.
The first inhabitants of Denmark
were hunters who lived in southern Jylland (Jutland) 250,000 years ago. You can
see flint tools and artifacts from this period locked away in museums. After
1,000 years, Viking burial mounds and stones still swell the land, some in
protected areas, others lying in farmer’s field, tended by grazing sheep.
The windswept lansapes filmed in
Babette’s Feast, the movie version of Karen Blixen’s (Isak Dinesen) novel,
trace the west coast northward to Skagen, a luminous, dune-covered point
(geographically not unlike the Outer Banks of North Carolina), while to the
east coast, facing Fyn, lie deep fjords rimmed with forests. The center is
dotted with castles, parklands, and the famed Legoland. Ribe, Denmark’s oldest
town, lies to the south, while the east coast is anchored by Arhus and Aalborg,
respectively Denmark’s second and fourth largest cities, with nightlife and
sights to rival Copenhagen’s.
Tourism Offices
Tourism offices are open weekday
from 10 am to 4 pm, on Saturday from 9 to noon.
Aalborg : Address : Østeerå 8,
tel. 98/12-60-22.
Arhus : Address : Rådhuset, tel.
86/12-16-00.
Billund : Address : c/o Legoland
A/S, Astvej, tel. 75/33-19-26.
Randers : Address : Erik Menveds
Plads 1, tel. 86/42-44-77.
Ribe : Address : Torvet 3-5, tel.
75/42-15-00.
Silkeborg : Address : Godthåbsvej
4, tel. 86/82-19-11.
Viborg : Address : Nythorv 5,
tel. 86/61-16-66.
Emergencies
For ambulance, fire or police
emergencies, you can call 112.
Doctors
After normal hours (4pm-7am),
In Aalborg : tel. 98/13-62-11.
In Århus : tel. 86/20-10-22.
Elsewhere : Call directory
assistance at 118 and ask for the number for the local night doctor.
Late Night Pharmacies
Århus : Løve Apoteket, Store Turv
5, tel. 86/12-00-22.
Aalborg : Budolfi Apotek, corner
of Vesterbro and Algade, tel. 98/12-06-77.
Pharmacies elsewhere rotate 24
hour emergency service and will fill only prescriptions that have been called
in by doctors.
Arriving and Departing by Plane
Billund Airport, 2 kilometers
(1.2 miles) southwest of downtown, receives flights from London, Stockholm,
Brussels, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt on Mærsk Air (tel. 75/33-28-44) and on the
Norwegian carrier Braathena to Oslo, Sunair ( tel. 75/33-16-11) serves Billund,
Århus, and Göteborg. Several domestic airports, including Aalborg, Århus, and
Esbjerg, are served by Mærsk, Cimber Air (tel. 74/42-22-77), and SAS (tel.
75/33-14-11), all of them have good connection to Copenhagen.
Arriving and Departing by Car, Train, and Ferry
By Car
Two bridges lik Middlefart on Fyn
to Fredecricia on Jylland. The older, lower bridge (1.7 kilometers/1 mile)
follows Route 161, while the newer suspension bridge (1.2 kilometers/.75mile)
on E20 is faster.
By Train
DSB (tel. 33/14-17-01) makes
hourly links between Copenhagen and Fredericia. The three and a half hour trip
includes train passage aboard the ferry, which crosses the Store Bælt between
Korsør, on west Sjælland, and Nyborg, on east Fyn.
By Ferry
Ferries from Hundested , Sjælland, to grena in
east jylland take 2 ½ hours, while those from Kalunborg to Århus take 3 hours.
For information, call DSB (tel. 33/14-17-01). Scandinavian Seaways (tel. In
Esbjerg, 75/12-48-00; in Copenhagen , 33/15-63-00) also links Harwich and New
castle to Esbjerg in the south west. There are also ferries from Göteborg (31/2
hours), on Sweden’s west coast and Oslo, Norway (10 hours), to frederikshavn in
the northeast. Call Stena Lina (tel. 96/20-02-00) for both.
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