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Clarion Hotel Plaza |
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Rooms From: EUR 95
stre Stationsvej 24, Odense C, DK-5000
Welcome to Clarion Hotel Plaza. This is a classic family run hotel in the city center., furnished in the `classic` English style.
The hotel is located in the city centre of beautiful Odense. This is a classic family run hotel in the city center., furnished in the 'classic' English style.
The hotel is located in the city centre of beautiful Odense.
The hotel is easily accessible as is located near to all modes of transport. All the 68 guestrooms at the hotel accommodation are well equipped with all the required amenities, providing a feeling of a residential comfort in a simple and elegant style. The hotel take pride in making the time to take care of all the details that make ones stay a pleasant one.
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Comfort Hotel Windsor |
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Rooms From: EUR 92
Vindegade 45, Odense C, DK-5000
Welcome to Comfort Hotel Windsor. This is a small, friendly hotel located in central Odense.
The hotel is considered to be one of the leading hotels outside the capital. It was built in 1898 and was last renovated in 1996. There are 62 bedrooms, and the hotel offers a laundry service, a car rental desk, and currency exchange.
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ODENSE is proud to be the birthplace of Denmark's best-loved writer, Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the childhood home of composer Carl Nielsen. Named after Odin, chief of the pagan gods, Odense is one of the oldest settlements in the country and was even home to King Knud II, canonized after his murder here in 1086. Much of the pleasantly sleepy city is pedestrianized, making it a perfect place to saunter about. You can also cycle along the old rail tracks, which have been converted into bicycle paths, or along the canal's edge past the elegant Danish mansions painted in mustard, terracotta and sky blue. The city has a range of good museums and a nightlife that's surprisingly lively, with the focus on live music and jazz.
Save for an outlying museum, Odense is easily seen on foot, and you may as well start with the city's major collection: the Hans Christian Andersen Museum at Hans Jensen Stræde 37-45 (mid-June to Aug daily 9am-7pm; rest of the year Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; www.odmus.dk ; 35kr), in the house where the writer was born in 1805. The son of a hard-up cobbler, Andersen was only really accepted in his own country towards the end of his life, which was perhaps why he travelled widely and often, and left Odense at the first opportunity. The museum is stuffed with intriguing items - bits of school reports, early notes and manuscripts of his books, illustrations from the tales, an invitation from Charles Dickens to stay in England and paraphernalia from his travels. A separate gallery has headphones for listening to some of Andersen's best-known tales and screens a sloppy slide-show, though plans for renovating the museum and making more of Andersen's fabulous imagination are under way.
The area around the museum, despite being all half-timbered houses and clean, car-free cobbled streets, lacks character; indeed, if Andersen were around he'd hardly recognize the neighbourhood, which is now one of Odense's most expensive. For far more realistic local history, head to Bymuseet Møntergården , a few streets away at Overgade 48-50 (Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; 15kr), where there's an engrossing assemblage of artefacts dating from the city's earliest settlements to the Nazi occupation, plus an immense coin collection. There's more about Andersen at Munkemøllestræde 3-5, between Skt. Knud Kirkestræde and Klosterbakken, in the tiny Hans Christian Andersen's Childhood Home (mid-Jun to Aug daily 10am-4pm; rest of year Tues-Sun 11am-3pm; 10kr), where Andersen lived from 1807 to 1819. More interesting, though, is the nearby Skt. Knud's Kirke (April-Oct Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun noon-3pm; rest of the year Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun noon-3pm; free), whose crypt holds one of the most unusual and ancient finds Denmark has to offer: the skeletons of King Knud II and his brother Benedikt, both slain in 1086 by Jutish farmers angry at the taxes Knud imposed on them - Knud was canonized soon after. The cathedral is the only example of pure Gothic church architecture in the country; its finely detailed sixteenth-century wooden altarpiece, saturated with gold leaf, is one of the greatest works of the Lübeck master, Claus Berg.
The Funen Art Gallery at Jernbanegade 13 (Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; www.odmus.dk ; 30kr), just a few minutes' walk away, will give you a good idea of the region's importance to the Danish art world during the late nineteenth century, when a number of Funen-based painters abandoned portraiture for impressionistic landscapes and studies recording the lives of the peasantry. The collection contains some stirring works by Vilhelm Hammershøi, P.S. Krøyer, Michael and Anne Ancher, and H.A. Brændekilde's enormously emotive Udslidt ("worn out"). A short walk to the east, at Claus Bergs Gade 11, is the Carl Nielsen Museum (July-Aug Tues-Sun noon-4pm; rest of the year Thurs-Sun noon-4pm). Born in a village just outside Odense, Nielsen is best remembered in Denmark for his popular songs, though it was his operas, choral pieces and symphonies that established him as a major international composer. The exhibits, detailing Nielsen's life and achievements, are enlivened by the accomplished sculptures of his wife, Anne Marie, and you can listen to some of his work on headphones.
Well worth a visit to the west of the centre is the Brandts Klædefabrik, on Brandts Passage just off Vestergade, an old cloth-weaving factory which now contains four museums (July-Aug daily 10am-5pm, Sept-June Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; www.brandts.dk for ticket to all exhibitions). In the large halls that once housed the huge machinery are the Brandts Art Gallery , which holds national and international exhibitions, mostly of contemporary art, and the Museum of Photographic Art , featuring a permanent collection of fine art photography unique in Denmark. On the third floor the Danish Museum of Printing illustrates the development of the printing trade in Denmark over the last three centuries. Further down Brandts Passage on the second floor of no 27 is the Tidens Samling (the "Time Collection"); it gives a fascinating insight into the development of fashion and housing interiors since the turn of the last century.
To the south of the Odense centre at Sejerskovvej 20 is Funen Village (April to mid-June & mid-Aug to Oct Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; mid-June to mid-Aug daily 9.30am-7pm; Nov-March Sun 11am-3pm; 35kr), an open-air museum made up of a reconstructed nineteenth-century country village of original buildings taken from all over Funen, painstakingly reassembled and refurnished. In summer, some of the old trades are revived in the former workshops and crafthouses, and free shows are regularly staged at the open-air theatre. Though often crowded, it's well worth a call, and you should watch out for the village-brewed beer, handed out free on special occasions. Bus #42 runs to the village from the city centre (get off at the sign Den Fynske Landsby), or you can do what the locals do and take the Odense Åfart boat from Munke Mose (May to mid-Aug; seven times daily; tel 65.95.79.96), stopping on the way at Odense Zoo (March-April & Sept-Oct Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 9am-6pm; May-June & Aug Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat & Sun 9am-7pm; July daily 9am-7pm; Nov-March daily 9am-4pm; www.odensezoo.dk ).
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