Skagen

A fishing port for centuries, Skagen’s luminous heath-and-dune landscape was discovered in the mid-1800s by artists, and in more recent times by summering urbanites. The peninsula is lined with fine beaches, including a sandy stretch just a 15-minute walk from the town centre.

Sagens Museum has paintings of PS Krøyer, Michael & Anna Ancher and other Skagen artists who came to ‘paint the light’. Denmark’s northernmost point is the long curving sweep of sand at Grenen. The path to the beach crosses rose-covered dunes, passing the grave of the poet Holger Drachmann.