From the airport of Bilund is an hour's drive from Aarhus, Denmark's second city. The landscape is predominantly green and flat but the Jutland peninsula, where Aarhus is the necessary surprises knows we are told. Chalk cliffs reminiscent of the English coast, many islands, three national parks and shifting dunes. And nowhere are you more than fifty kilometers from the sea. The North Sea or the Baltic Sea, where Aarhus is right on.
The old harbor front
Like many modernizing coastal cities have also opened Aarhus old port areas. The city is no longer with his back to the water, separated by pilots, ships, containers, and the inevitable messiness which it belongs, but it unlocks the waterfront city. And is a vital area where industrial heritage alternates with contemporary architecture; a kind of place that always appeals to me.
DOKK1 , with its impressive façade and staircase while taking in a central location. The building houses the public library, which has been chosen as the best in the world, with plenty of room for different audiences. Study rooms, lounge areas and play areas for children. And a gong that can be operated from the maternity ward of the hospital and announces every newborn. There is an events hall and under the building contains a fully automated parking. Near DOKK1 you find harbor buildings with a new function and the necessary pop-up initiatives. And it is still being built and rebuilt, which promises more beautiful.
The Facade of DOKK1The Façade of DOKK1 On the ceiling of the car park under DOKK1 depends Magic Mushrooms, eenondersteboven hanngend scale model of an imaginary city.On the ceiling of the car park under DOKK1 depends Magic Mushrooms, an upside down hanging scale model of an imaginary city
Aarhus Ø Urban with style
Ø Aarhus achieved a new city district on an extension of the harbor front and still under construction. The star attraction is " The Iceberg " a unique building with angled buildings, giving each apartment sea and seems to catch the light like an iceberg with crumbling peaks. With his blue balconies and sloping walls is quickly become an icon of modern Aarhus. In the neighborhood you will find more specific residential complexes, taking into account diversity, young and old, higher and lower incomes. During the construction of the neighborhood is hip and trendy consideration matters such as the Beach Bar , a movable set of containers and scaffolding wood furniture and movable urban gardening. There are canals and there is green. A beautiful piece of urban renewal.
the Icebergthe Iceberg The beach in Aarhus ØThe beach in Aarhus Ø
The Latin Quarter
The oldest near Aarhus, originated in the 14 e century on the site were first Viking fortifications. The street names as Kasteelstraat and Stronghold remind yet. In the narrow streets with cobblestones host of trendy shops just and cafes. A small paradise for those who enjoy shopping and cafes keep this neighborhood. Not far away you can find Moll Stien, a street with the most photographed, and indeed very cute, houses of the city.
Moll StienMoll Stien House in Moll StienHouse in Moll Stien
Dark times revived in the Moesgaard Museum
A lot out of the city center is the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, a landscape integrated triangular building mostly covered by lawns. Issue here is the history of man from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages roughly. The Moesgaard is rather a building for an exhibition is built over an exhibition in a building. Ceilings depicting a starry vistas stairwells, much darkness, animations and even flooring that swampy doctorate in displays that go on a swamp. Here history is portrayed not only shown .. A history of struggle against the elements and strife among people. It is the darkness that seems to bring everything to life.
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The main attraction is the "Grauballe Man ', a bog body which was found mummified cut his throat. An offering to the gods was a gift to distant descendants. Another highlight are the evocative reconstructions of the ancestors of humans, Lucy, to the Java Man and Cool Mountain woman from the Stone Age, the oldest woman found in Denmark.
The Grauballe ManThe Grauballe Man The Cool Mountain woman at MoesgaardThe Cool Mountain woman
Running through the rainbow in the ARoS Art Museum
What it takes to put your city on the map? A conceptual, big and visual artwork is a good start. Such art is the Rainbow Panorama, a circular 150m meter long walkway with colored glass panels on the roof of the Aros Art Museum placed requirement. A circle passing through the rainbow, you have a panoramic view of the city. The museum appears on the outside at first sight a square brick box but gets inside allure with its circular skirt which somewhat reminiscent of the Guggenheim in New York.
Rainbow Panorama on ARoS Art Museum.Rainbow Panorama on ARoS Art Museum
On the sixth floor you find the exhibition " No Man Is an Island - The Satanic Verses" a collection of modern art from its own collection supplemented with borrowed work. The highlight is 'Boy' by Ron Mueck, a four and a half meters high statue of a squatting boy made of fiberglass. The hyper-realistic depiction of the structure of the skin, veins, hairs and pores make it, along with the dimensions, a fascinating work. The more conceptual work "Low key" of Dagger is an outlier, although many a car enthusiast will abhor this beautiful piece of art audience participation: the scratch with your keys in a black Lamborghini.
Ron Mueck (1958), Boy, 1999Ron Mueck (1958), Boy, 1999 Dagger (1979), Low Key, 2016Dagger (1979), Low Key, 2016 Tony Matelli (1971) Fucked (Couple), 2005Tony Matelli (1971) Fucked (Couple), 2005
culinary Aarhus
In Denmark cooking in recent years into an art. The world's best restaurant award winning 'Noma' is found in Copenhagen and created a furore with the use of unorthodox seasonal local ingredients. Also in Aarhus have now three restaurants with a Michelin star, has held a large food festival, there are plenty of culinary events and pop up in 2017 Aarhus among the European Region of Gastronomy. Overall food is a concern.
Not far from DOKK1 you find a hall with street food. The stalls serving dishes like Vietnamese baguettes (Banhmi) Falaffel, hamburgers pulled-duck, galettes from Brittany and Caribbean grilled chicken. The full tables in the middle give the feeling of a cozy picnic indoors. A more traditional specialty is obviously smørrebrød, a Danish lunch dish. We try the necessary variations in restaurant Kahler , named for and filled with the famous Kahler ceramics. The open sandwiches are a feast for the eyes and for the palate.
Street food hallStreet food hall Pulled duckPulled duck Delicious Banhmi Sandwich.Delicious Sandwich Banhmi Smörrebröd in KahlerSmörrebröd in Kahler
European Capital of Culture and the Aarhus Festival
In 2017 Aarhus is the cultural capital of Europe. Two represent workers from the tourist office talk about the plans. A variety of musical, culinary, artistic and other events are planned. It seems that you organize this kind of business you have to leave it to the dynamic youth of Aarhus.
Every year in late August-early September kept the Aarhus Festival. In 2016, with the motto 'Upside down'. Which performed well Malian music and Flamingo were performed including a death metal band in a church. Upside down, among other things was represented by lying on the ground façade was displayed vertically through an angled mirror. A source of fun audience participation and lots of posts on social media. The ten-day festival had half a million visitors and 1,300 events at 100 sites. In 2017 the theme is "Bridging". reserve a spot in the agenda of 2017 for Aarhus seems not a bad idea.
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