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Rooms From: EUR 119.33
Europaplads 10-14, Aarhus, DK-8000
The Comfort Hotel Atlantic was built in 1964 and completely renovated in 1994. One of the city`s tallest buildings, it is 11 floors high.
Comfort Hotel Atlantic is located by the sea with beautiful views across the water and the city. The hotel is within walking distance from the train station, bus terminal, ferries and shopping malls.
All the 102 rooms at the hotel are decorated in a lavishing style providing one the ultimate experience of the world-class hospitality when it comes to service and offering the top most amenities.
The hotel is within walking distance of the train station, bus terminal, ferries and shopping.
45k S Aarhus International Airport
**K N Billund Airport
1k N Aarhus Sporveje Bus Service
1k Nw Dsb Train Service
From Airport Drive In Direction Of Aarhus. Follow Sign To
Harbour Havn And You Will Find The Hotel Atlantic.
Local Attractions
Aarhus (0 km) - Aarhus dates from the time of the Vikings and has beautiful trees and beaches and is a very pleasant town to stroll around. The Old Town (Den Gamle By) is an open air museum of almost 70 traditional country houses from all over Denmark.
Museum of Moesgard (1 km) - The Museum the 2,000-year-old, well-preserved body of the Grauballe 'bog' man and many other artifacts from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Marselisborg Castle (1 km) - The Castle and its pretty gardens is where the Danish Queen spends Christmas and summers.
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Geographically at the heart of the country and often regarded as Denmark's cultural capital, ÅRHUS typifies all that's good about Danish cities: it's small enough to get to know in a few hours, yet big and lively enough to fill both days and nights. Despite Viking-era origins, the city's present-day prosperity is due to its long, sheltered bay, on which the first harbour was constructed during the fifteenth century, and the more recent advent of railways, which made Århus a nationally important trade and transport centre. Easily reached by train from all the country's bigger towns, and by ferry from Zealand, Århus also receives nonstop flights from London. There's certainly no better place for a first taste of Denmark.
Århus divides into two clearly defined parts: the old section, close to the cathedral, a tight cluster of medieval streets, and, surrounding this, a less characterful modern sector. Søndergade is the city's main street, a pedestrianized strip that leads down into Bispetorvet and the old centre, the streets of which form a web around the Domkirke (May-Sept Mon-Sat 9.30am-4pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 10am-3pm), a massive if plain Gothic church, most of which dates from the fifteenth century, the original twelfth-century structure having been destroyed by fire. At the eastern end, the altarpiece is a grand triptych by the noted Bernt Notkes. Look also at the painted glass window behind the altar, the work of the Norwegian Emmanuel Vigeland (brother of Gustav). The area around the cathedral is a leisurely district of browsable shops and enticing cafés. On Clements Torv, across the road from the cathedral in the basement under Unibank, the Viking Museum (Mon-Wed & Fri 9.30am-4pm, Thurs 9.30am-6pm; free) displays Viking finds, including sections of the original ramparts and some Viking craftsmen's tools, alongside some informative accounts of early Århus. Close by, at Domkirkeplads 5, the Women's Museum (June-Aug daily 10am-5pm; rest of the year Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; www.kvindemuseet.dk ; 25kr) stages temporary exhibitions on many aspects of women's lives and lifestyles past and present. West along Vestergade, the thirteenth-century Vor Frue Kirke (Mon-Fri 10am-2pm, Sat 10am-noon) is actually the site of three churches, most notable of which is the atmospheric eleventh-century crypt church, discovered beneath several centuries-worth of rubbish during restoration work on the main church in the 1950s. Look in, also, at the main church, for Claus Berg's detailed altarpiece, and, through the cloister remaining from the pre-Reformation monastery, now an old folks' home, for the medieval frescoes inside the third church, which depict local working people rather than biblical scenes.
If you've visited the tourist office, you've already been inside the least interesting section of one of the modern city's major sights, the Århus Rådhus , a controversial structure built in the 1940s. You're free to walk in and look for yourself, but it's best to take a guided tour (10kr) conducted in English at 11am on weekdays during the summer. Above the entrance hangs Hagedorn Olsen's huge mural, A Human Society , symbolically depicting the city emerging from World War II. Perhaps most interesting are the walls of the small civic room; Albert Naur, who designed them during the Nazi occupation, concealed various Allied insignia in their intricate floral patterns. Finally, a lift (late June to early Sept noon & 2pm; 5kr, included in the tour) climbs to the bell tower and a view over the city and across the bay.
It's a short walk from here to the city's best-known attraction, Den Gamle By , on Viborgvej (daily: Jan 11am-3pm; Feb-March & Nov-Dec 10am-4pm; April-May & Sept-Oct 10am-5pm; June-Aug 9am-6pm; www.dengamleby.dk ; 60kr), an open-air museum of traditional Danish life, with sixty-odd half-timbered houses from all over the country, dismantled and moved here piece by piece. Many of the craftsmen's buildings are used for their original purpose, the overall aim of the place being to give an impression of an old Danish market town, something it does very effectively. Fans of Danish art may well prefer to visit the Århus Art Museum (Tues-Sun 10am-5pm, Wed until 8pm; www.aarhuskunstmuseum.dk ) in Vennelystparken, a little way north, with works from the late eighteenth century to the modern day, including the radiant canvases of Asger Jorn and Richard Mortensen, and Bjørn Nørgaard's sculptured version of Christian IV's tomb: the original, in Roskilde Cathedral, is stacked with riches; this one features a coffee cup, an egg and a ballpoint pen.
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