Billund

Buy an air ticket to Billund and experience the charm of southern Jutland, with its beautiful nature and many family attractions. Start your holiday with an air ticket to Billund.

Centrally located on Denmark’s mainland, the Jutland peninsula, Billund makes a perfect starting point for a visit to the country. You are spoilt for choice when it comes to outings around the city of Billund, an area of natural beauty that offers a wide variety of exciting attractions. Here, on the moors of Jutland, you can really sense the presence of history especially if you follow the Harvejen road. This thousand year-old route through Jutland leads you past iron-age runic stones, bronze-age burial places and stone circles from the Viking period. Depending on what you prefer, you can experience the Harvejen journey through history on foot, bicycle or in a horse-drawn carriage.

Near Billund you’ll find Legoland “ an extensive amusement park, where young and old can sample many amusements and play with endless amounts of Lego bricks. Legoland also features miniature versions of several Danish and foreign cities, given a realistic touch by numerous working trains, cranes, buses and cars. In Legoland you’ll find also a reproduction of the four American presidents on Mount Rushmore, which alone is said to have required 1.5 million Lego bricks.

If you would like to stay at a hostel with a somewhat unusual decor, Billund can offer the hostel Legoland Village, which is decorated with harbour, city and farm themes from the Lego universe. Buy a couple of air tickets to Billund, and experience the many bricks and amusements of Legoland.

Just a few kilometres from Billund you’ll find the town of Give, which gives its name to Givskud Zoo. Givskud Zoo is a rather unusual zoo, in that the animals mostly walk around freely in the open. In several areas, the zoo has the atmosphere of a savannah.

With a couple of air tickets to Billund, golf won’t be far away as less than 10 km from Billund, you’ll find golf courses in Give, Gyttegaard and Jelling.

Not far from Billund lies Silkeborg, home to the Silkeborg Museum of Art and AQUA Northern Europe’s largest fresh-water aquarium.

Art aficionados should not cheat themselves out of visiting the town hall square in Billund. Here art is truly in focus: Frithioff Johansen has created the new symbol of the city,Sfiroten, accompanied by The Spanish Steps, The Musical Fountain and The Egg all unique modern works of art worth a visit.

Billund is not far from the larger cities of Esbjerg, Vejle and Horsens, where you will find an abundance of shopping options, music events, museums, trade fairs and congress centres. Jutland offers a host of activities and facilities, and you can reach all of Jutland from Billund.

With an air ticket to Billund, most of the West Danish towns will be within a couple of hours’ drive.

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