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Guided tour in Elsinore which has a lively history and a very intact inner city centre which creates links to the past, with its cosy cobbled streets, where old half-timbered houses still stand from the 15th hundreds.

Elsinore holds lots of small inns and pubs with many original details, historical buildings such as Kronborg Castle, the Karmeliter monestary and Saint Olai Cathedral as well as exiting monuments and memorials.

We will of course also experience the story of Kronborg Castle which is the basis for the existence of the historical period, when foreign sailors spoke of Elsinore as the Marseilles of the North.

Taste you way through the beer city of Copenhagen with an expert beer guide.

I will tell you the fascinating story about the history of Danish beer. The first brewery in Danmark, Kongens Bryghus, The Royal Brewery, the first brewery of Carlsberg and the ramparts of the town, where the beer matured, are some of the stories about beer and Copenhagen.

The beer walk includes the story about the recent Danish beer revolution. We will make stops at three craft beer bars in the old town. The bars excel in a great selection of beer types at the higest level of quality.

Experience a fascinating journey in the beautiful city of Copenhagen following the traces of Carlsberg – the delicious Danish Beer. Come and feel the city's charm and get an inside view on history and the life of the locals.

We will explore the vibrant streets and squares rich in culture and traditions, and discover that fairytale charm of kings and royal palaces, mixed with the thriving pulse of this vibrant city and its residents.

All in the footsteps of Carlsberg – the signature beer of Denmark. We will discover the influence Carlsberg has had on the city. The Little Mermaid, museums and the botanical gardens are just part of its legacy. Let's join the locals and explore the city by bicycle.

On a lovely guided tour through Østerbro and Frederiksstaden I will tell you the history of how the Catholic Church tried to return to Denmark shortly after the Reformation, and how today there is a well-established Danish Catholic minority in Copenhagen.

We will look at Copenhagen minority history from prohibition period up to today's versatile Denmark.

The guided tour begins at Saint Augustins Church, Jagtvej 183D, where we meet up and continue the tour through Klosterfælleden in Fælledparken, past Holmens Cemetery to the school Institute of Saint Joseph at Dag Hammarskjölds Alle, before the tour ends at the Cathedral Saint Ansgars Church in Bredgade.

During the tour I will tell you about the only Danish Catholic gymnasium, the first Danish school of Jesuits, The French School and the religious community Saint Joseph Sisters of Chambery as well as the sisters' significance in Denmark. In addition to this I will tell you about other significant Catholic people including Peter Schindler and Chresten Skikkild.

Lastly, I will tell you about the Catholic minority's history in Denmark after the Reformation and about the post reformation Catholic congregation in the safe haven of Fredericia.

Epidemics in Copenhagen – cholera, plague, typhus and the development of the city.

The year is 1853, and the first report of cholera is received by the authorities in Copenhagen. It is the start of another epidemic in the city, which has been hit by many different diseases throughout the ages, like plague, tuberculosis, polio and recently corona.

Hop on your bike and join me for an off-the-beaten-path tour of Ørestad. Experience how these striking modern buildings beautifully contrast with the expansive natural landscapes of Amager, creating a breathtaking blend of urban and natural beauty.

On this guided tour, we will explore some of Copenhagen's most notable architectural highlights, including Tietgen Student Housing by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, Resource Rows, VM Houses, The Mountain, and 8 Tallet, all by BIG, Upcycle Studios by Realdania Byg and Arcgency, and The Royal Arena by 3XN.

Each of these landmarks showcases innovative design and cutting-edge architecture, offering a unique perspective on the city's modern development.

Join me in my beautiful hometown, the fishing village of Gilleleje, and discover the lively summer town, the beautiful coastline and freshly caught fish in the charming harbour.

Gilleleje attracts guests from everywhere and is world renowned for its WWII history. In 1943 when World War II was raging, the town's fishermen smuggled Danish Jews to Sweden in the shelter of the night. We seek out the history of the little Church and Gilleleje Museum, eat a delicious dish at the harbour and walk through the town and the vicinity.

An obvious excursion from Copenhagen, only 60 km north of the capital. Meet me in the historical village

Guided tour in Copenhagen where I'll show you some of the most beautiful buildings by King Christian the 4th. We will meet at the Old Square, Gammel Torv.

From there vi head towards the brew-house, the Royale Arsenal Museum and the Stock Exchange, Holmens Church and look towards Christianshavn and Christiania.

We cross through the city to the Round Tower, and if you like we can walk up the tower. I will tell you about all the symbols on the tower and show you what have been designed by Christian the 4th himself. Before we continue towards Rosenborg Castle we take a look at Trinitatis Church and at the Residential Hall for students, Regensen.

From Rosenborg Castle we pass through the Royal Garden to the first buildings to house labourers – in this case the fleet personel. It is called the New Small Houses, Nyboder. From here we walk to the Citadel, Kastellet. 

If you want to visit Rosenborg Castle and The Crown Jewels it is possible.

Denmark is the 2nd oldest monarchy in the world so history has provided us with many kings. If you only have time to learn about one of them, King Christian IV is the one you need to know.

Guided bus tour, where we drive from Copenhagen on a lovely trip in North Zealand and visit three gems: Kronborg Castle (1574) by Frederik II, Fredensborg Castle (1720) and Frederiksborg Castle (1606) by Christian IV.Kronborg and Frederiksborg castles and palaces are listed in the Dutch Renaissance style and both appear as King Christian the 4 left them, but the story goes further back. We will take a tour of Hamlets Kronborg and see the newly renovated fortress site and at Frederiksborg Castle, the National History Museum, which has also undergone an extensive restoration.

At Fredensborg Castle we take a short hike to the beautiful park which has not only been brought back to its original appearance but the landscape has also been worked on so that the park has become even more spectacular.

On the tour I will tell you about the Øresund Customs, which was introduced by Erik of Pomerania and which became such a success that over the next 400 years it was able to finance all the great splendor of Danish kings in North Zealand and Copenhagen.

Visit the magnificent cathedral and the thousand-year-old Viking ships on this guided tour around Roskilde's cultural world heritage.

Roskilde Cathedral and the Viking Ship Museum – two places that are both recognized as unique world cultural heritage. The cathedral is the church in the world that has the most kings and queens buried: 21 kings and 18 queens. At the same time, it is a unique architectural testimony to the changing art and architectural styles of the past as well as a display of the changing views on monarchy in Denmark.

Highlights of the trip are Margrethe the 1st's distinguished tomb and Christian the 4th's beautifully decorated chapel, which displays the king's legacy as a colorful warrior king.

The Viking Ship Museum houses the original 5 Skuldelev ships, Museumsøen houses the large collection of reconstructed Viking ships and Nordic wooden boats that showcase what the original ships looked like a thousand years ago. The boatyard on the Museum Island next to the museum is open from May to mid-October, it imparts vivid Viking Age craftsmanship and boat building culture.

We will visit both places to explore a milleneum of Danish history – from the Vikings' ravages and adventurous spirit to the kings' uniting and pacifying of the country. We will consider the question of who the Vikings really were and get closer to the center of power and the cheerful, touching, and sad stories that surround the Danish kings and queens.

If time allows, we will make a small city walk around the old Roskilde city center, or enjoy new Nordic food at the Viking Ship Museum's Café Knarr.

Copenhageners have always been something special. The king's influence on the city has truly made Copenhagen a metropolis in its own right.

Yet, one cannot say that the city is particularly "Danish." It resembles a Greek polis or even ancient Rome more than anything else. And that is not at all surprising.

On this city walk, we will explore various kings' attempts to create a city filled with buildings and monuments, making it a Rome of the North.

We will look at everything from Eigtved's brilliant constructions to equestrian statues and frescoes on this guided tour through the Danish Rome of the 18th century.

On a 3 hour bicycle ride I tell you about the new and trendy Copenhagen.

We ride on the new cycle route "Havneringen", the harbour ring, through the new canal towns across bicycle bridges, including the "Slangen", the snake. We look at modern urban planning and Dutch-inspired buildings, and I talk about well-known foreign and Danish architects who have made their mark here and why.

We cycle from the citizen's house on Islands Brygge, through Islands Brygge, Nokken,
over the lock at Sjællandsbroen; through Sluse- and Teglholmen, Kalvebod Brygge, Blox, Havnegade, the Royal Theatre over the "Kissing Bridge" to the North Atlantic Brygge, along the waterfront to the former B&W grounds, across the new bicycle bridges "Circle Bridge" "Spider Bridge" at Langebro and finish at Harbour Park at Islands Brygge's civic house.

Along the way there will be stops, where I tell you about the town planning of each area and why it looks the way it does. There will be an opportunity to eat at the Citizens' House or at the street food stalls at the "Kissing Bridge".

If you want to experience modern Nordic urban planning and architecture up close, come along!

The Danes have a lot of traditions that originally came from Germany. German influence can be seen in art exhibitions, film and music, architecture etc. Copenhagen has important German institutions such as the St. Petri’s School, the Goethe-Institute and the Danish-German Chamber of Commerce.

This city walk starts at the City Hall Square, from where we first explore the medieval city and then continue towards Frederiksstaden. Throughout the guided tour, we will keep our focus on Copenhagen’s inspiration from Germany and ask the question: have we borrowed, stolen, or learned from our German neighbors?

I will show you both what is easy to spot, such as architecture, trade, and Christmas markets in December, and what can be harder to detect, for example language, philosophy, and cultural influences within our central administration.

We will look into history and meet some of the Germans who have passed through – from Struensee to the many craftsmen who have left their mark on Copenhagen. We will also talk about the period where the idea Nation States grew and Danish identity became strong in opposition to the German.

A city walk tracing the German influence in Copenhagen, offering both historical insights and a modern understanding of Danish-German relations.

Would you like a guided tour to an area of utmost importance in medieval Denmark?

A tour to the castle ruins of Vordingborg…

Take a trip with me to Vordingborg and visit the Vordingborg Castle Grounds where you can still see parts of the outer walls and ascend the remaining "Goose Tower". I give you the story of both Viking Age Vordingborg and the three Valdemarian kings of the Danish Middle Ages, who built the castles from where they ruled the area and the country. Perhaps you would like to see the splendid old church too?

If you wish, I would be happy to meet you and your coach in Copenhagen or elsewhere and be your guide on the way to Vordingborg. This give me an opportunity to tell you more about the things we are going to see. We can make a stop at the newly recovered Ring Fort Vikingeborgen at Køge, this being the fifth known to this day. Or, if you prefer, we can make a detour to the town of Næstved and take a stroll through its lovely old centre.

A city walk and bike tour to show you Copenhagen's most important, classic attractions and brings you close to the kings that onces excisted in the city.

The program can be adjusted as desired.

We walk from the Little Mermaid past the citadelle to the Gefion fountain, and we drive along the old ramparts which marked the city's borders during the Middle Ages. We are close to the rich heritage of Christian IV's 16th century Copenhagen, such as the marine houses at Nyboder, Rosenborg Castle and the Round Tower. The city walk can include a visit to the idyllic Rosenborg Castle, which houses the collection of the Royal Jewels.

We go through the palaces of Amalienborg Square and see the change of the Royal Guards; The personal life guard, introduced by Frederik III as the country's first Danish-speaking regiment. The castle is Queen Margrethes and the Crown Prince's Winter Residence, but was originally planned by the 17th century Frederik V as public housing and is the gem of the aristocratic quarter he named after himself: Frederiksstaden.

Then we take a stroll along the canal of Nyhavn, dug by Swedish prisoners of war in the 17th century. The place was a long time one of the city's creepy neighborhoods, but today is one of the most picturesque and popular places in Copenhagen, filled with cafes and small restaurants. H.C. Andersen loved Nyhavn, and between his many travels abroad he came to live in three different houses here.

Then we pass over to the medieval part of the city and stop at Christiansborg Palace, where five castles were constructed followed each other and is where the parliament is located today. We descend under the present building to see the ruins of the first two castles; namely Copenhagen founder Bishop Absalon's 12th-century castle and the Copenhagen Castle, which replaced it in the 14th century.

After a trip around Copenhagen City Hall, we stop at Our Lady Church and experience a mood of Danish Golden Age. The church, which is the cathedral of Copenhagen, houses some of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's best work – among others, his great figure of jesus Christ. The neighborhood around the church was the home of the philosopher Søren Kierkegaards; he spent all his life here. To finish the tour, we climb the spiral corridor on Chrisitan IV's Round Tower.

There may be changes in the order due to any worship services in Our Lady Church.

For you who are particularly interested in the history of Denmark and the Vikings tihs is the perfect tour.

We can meet in Roskilde or we can go from Copenhagen. We will go west to Roskilde and drive along the fiord, where affluent foragers lived 7000 years ago. From here we shall continue on a detour south of Roskilde to the area of Lejre and make stops at burial mounds from the Danish prehistory covering the Neolithic Period, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, all in all from 6000 to 1200 years ago. I tell you about the things we see, as we drive through the picturesque landscape of the region.

We shall focus on the Vikings and will make stops at the Halls of Lejre and the "skibssætninger", which are stone rows in the shape of ships. Put together, these features make up substantial evidence that important men and women lived and died here.

Coming back to Roskilde, the city that was made the country's first capital by the Vikings, we shall visit the Viking Ship Museum. The museum houses the wrecks of the five ships discovered at the bottom of the fiord in 1957. The ships were deliberately sunk in the late 11th century in order to stop the advance of a hostile Norwegian fleet, and they have now given us some of our most precise knowledge of ship-building and sailing a thousand years ago. Apart from the various Viking craft workshops that are run at the museum grounds there is a shipyard staffed by boat builders who construct new ships using the ancient techniques.

It was in Roskilde that King Harold Bluetooth had the first Christian church of Zealand built in 980 and subsequently claimed to have christened the Danes. That was probably not quite true, as it was customary in the Viking Age to carry the hammer-pendant of the old Norse god Thor. I will tell you about the Viking mythology as well as the use of runes.

Our final destination of the tour will be Roskilde Cathedral, the latest descendant of King Harold's wooden church. The first bricks of the present building were laid in 1170 during the era of Bishop Absalon, but in the course of time it has been gradually extended by still more chapels in order to make space for the marble sarcophagies of the Danish kings and queens. The earliest is that of Queen Margrethe I, who died in 1412, fifteen years after she had united the giant Nordic realm. 

The sequence may be altered because of service hours in the cathedral.

The old port of Vesterbro is torn down and the city expands along Vesterbro Street. It was decided by the city counsel that all slaughtering was to take place in slaughter houses; as a consequence the stalls at Trommesalen were closed and the Brown meat market was built.

The area is expanding, life is not boring but rough! They don't lack aquavit.

We meet for the city walk at Vesterbros Torv and you will be told about the area; we are visiting court yards. We walk down Istedgade, through the Shooting Range, through an area built for the labourers at Carlsberg Brewery.

The city walk ends after having seen the surroundings at Carlsberg and hearing the history of the brewery.

Experience Fredensborg Palace grounds through centuries with stories about the palace which is the royal family's recidens.

Join me for a walk around this residence of the royal family, which is mostly used during spring and in the autumn. Learn about the history of the palace and its architecture, the family links connecting the royal families of Europe and visit the magnificent park, which has recently been renovated and returned to its old baroque splendor.

The tour takes 2 hours and I'll walk with you through the park, where we are able to see the palace from all sides, the royal garden, the garden of the Norvegians, the woods and the grand axis alleys with their spectacular sculptures by Wiedewelt leading to Esrum lake.