Horsens
Horsens is a city on the southeast coast of the Jutland peninsula.
Horsens is a city on the southeast coast of the Jutland peninsula. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 65,037 and the municipality's population is 98,806, making it the 6th largest city in Denmark.
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Worth seeing in and around Horsens
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Things to do
- 01Canoeing at Bygholm Sø
Lovbyvej 35 (go to Bygholm Sø Camping northwest of Bygholm Park), camp@horsens.dk.
- 02Fængslet
Fussingsvej 8 (North of the central station).
- 03Horsens Ny Teater
Teatertorvet 1 (In the pedestrianised area north of Søndergade), hnt@hnt.dk.
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Where to eat
There are plenty of dining opportunities around the pedestrianized highstreet zone. Most cafés are here, and some of them serves both day and night, including evening dinners and late night partying.
- 01Cafe Corfitz
Centrally located classic café, right at Søndergade.
- 02Spisekammeret
Thonbogade 19 (in the pedestrianized area north of Søndergade), info@spisekammeret.net.
- 03Sakura Sushi Bar
Torvet 20 (down Søndergade until you hit the church square).
- 04Paradis
Thonbogade 2, (in the pedestrianised area).
- 05Lagkagehuset
Lokes Allé 30 and Sønderbrogade 95A (at the junction between Ringevejen and Thorsvej in the south part of town),.
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Getting to Horsens
- Airports
- Billund (BLL), 45 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 52 km · Aarhus (AAR), 69 km
- Stations
- Horsens station, 1 km
- Billund → Horsens49 km · quickest by road, 53 min · kr38–50
- Odense → Horsens62 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · kr70–95
- Aarhus → Horsens40 km · quickest by road, 43 min · kr33–45
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Horsens
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Horsens. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextTake the bus to the small town of Snaptun and then the 1-hour ferry to the island of Endelave.
- Go nextDo this as a day trip or stay overnight for a mini-vacation.
- Go nextTake the short seven-minute ferry trip there from Snaptun.
- Go nextIn the summer months there is a ferry connection from Snaptun, but Alrø can also be accessed from an artificial landbridge on the northern side.
- Go nextBird tours are regularly arranged, as are small canoe trips.
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Next door to Horsens
- Horsens Municipalitymunicipality of Denmark700 m
- Hattingsettlement in Horsens Municipality, Denmark5.4 km