Countryside and Vikings, Copenhagen area

Viking ship

10:00-17:00 Meet with your guide and private coach in the morning for an excursion to the countryside. Visit the town Roskilde and the Viking Ship museum.  The Viking Ship Museum is both a museum, a research institution and an active boatyard. On the basis of the discovery of five Viking ships in Roskilde Fjord, the museum present the Vikings’ maritime culture, their shipping, ship building, craftsmanship, voyages, trade and the significance of the ships for Viking society.

The Viking Ship Hall, designed by Professor Erik Christian Sørensen, is beautifully located on to Roskilde Fjord. The building was built to house the Viking ships found in Roskilde Fjord and was listed in 1997.

The permanent exhibition consist of five objects – the five Skuldelev ships, and tells the history of the ships as well as the history of the Nordic maritime adventure during the Viking Age.

You will visit the Viking Museum inside.

Possible to have lunch at the museum or start with a lunch at your next stop:

Köge (or Køge in Danish) was officially founded in 1288, when the town became a market town as a contrast to the ecclesiastical center at that time – Roskilde, and was an important merchant town during the late Middle Ages. The historical architecture of the town centre is one of the major attractions of Køge. The oldest dated half-timbered house in Denmark, which is also the oldest dated non-nobility and non-religious building of the Nordic countries to be found in Køge. It was built in 1527. Originally a section of a row of hovels it is now a part of the public library. Køge’s town hall dates from 1552 and is the oldest town hall in Denmark still in use as such.

Old house in Köge