The best road cycling routes in Odense

Camp Hverringe is a genuine beach campsite. If you have your own boat, you can also moor it at the campsite. During the summer months, you can rent SUP boards and kayaks.

A beautiful town hall dating from the 1880s. It replaced the older building on the same site. A lovely ensemble with the church in the market square.

The castle has been rebuilt several times since the end of the 13th century. Its current appearance dates back to the 18th century. The castle is not accessible.

A beautifully designed park and museum. The museum fits perfectly into the park.

Odense Castle is located in the city center and has shaped its surroundings for over 500 years. Originally built in the late 13th century as a monastery for the Knights of St. John, the building changed hands and functions after the Reformation. In 1575, King Frederik II transformed the old monastery into a royal palace. The current complex has been renovated several times. At the beginning of the 18th century, Frederik IV desired a modern residence. The architect Johan Cornelius Krieger designed a new main wing in the Baroque style and laid out a symmetrical castle garden in the 1720s – today's Royal Garden. The castle was further expanded in 1837 when the architect Jørgen Hansen Koch added an additional wing, giving the building its present form.

I think the house AND garden are worth a visit. You can listen to explanations of individual stations by activating a light barrier. There are original objects, but the atmosphere of the fairy tales is also captured in the themed rooms. A successful implementation (in my personal opinion).

The Amanda statue is the symbol of Kerteminde. It was created in 1954 by the artist Robert Lund Jensen and symbolizes the beautiful, graceful daughters of the town. The story of Amanda comes from a girl whose real name was Sophie Krag. Sophie was a young girl from Kerteminde who suffered a sad fate and died of an illness at the age of only 40. She was one of eight children of the watchmaker Edvard Krag and his wife Marie Catrine Ovesen Wittrock. At the age of 20, she traveled to Copenhagen to emulate her sister Augusta Møller and become an actress. She received a job as a revue actress at the Nørrebro Theater, was quickly accepted into the acting world, and became engaged to the writer Anton Melbye, who was ten years older. According to the story, she met an old acquaintance from Kerteminde, the law student Wilhelm Nielsen, with whom she began a flirtation despite their engagement. The end of the story was a tragic annulment of the engagement. The upper middle class was outraged, and a good friend of Anton's, the composer Axel Schwanenflügel, wrote the song "Harper i luften" (Harps in the Air) for the Winter Revue in 1893 – the famous song that begins with the line "Min Amanda var fra Kerteminde" (My Amanda was from Kerteminde). The town of Kerteminde has, of course, long since forgiven its "Amanda" for her unfaithful debauchery and erected a monument to her as a symbol of the beautiful and graceful daughters of Kerteminde, whom one simply cannot help but love. The word Amanda comes from Latin and means "the lovable one." https://www.visitkerteminde.de/kerteminde/sehenswuerdigkeiten/amanda

Drigstrup Church is dedicated to St. Nicholas and has a Romanesque choir and nave, along with a late Gothic tower and porch. Of the original wall openings, only the south door remains. In the late Gothic period, the eight-ribbed cross vault in the choir and nave was added, and the choir walls were raised at the same time, so that their roof ridge is flush with the nave's roof ridge. Somewhat later, around the Reformation period, the low tower with a stepped gable was added. The current altarpiece, a copy of Murillo's Madonna in a Baroque frame, was installed in 1924. https://www.visitkerteminde.de/kerteminde/reiseplanung/drigstrup-kirche-gdk613573