Travel Guide Skagen

It is the city at the end of Denmark where the sky and the sea drown in the same blue that inspired the brushes of a group of Scandinavian artists at the end of the 19th century: the "Skagen painters" (pronounced "Skaine"). These artists were right: here the Nordic light unfolds all its spells. Karen Blixen settled here in the 1930s to write The African Farm on her return from Kenya, to find rest. Its population of 9,000 residents swells in the summer with the tourists who flock to this place considered magical.This place is also the scene of a whole series of phenomena related to the sand that invades everything. You have to walk in the alleys between the main street (returned to pedestrians) and the port, even if the fishermen's houses have become second homes. The wild aspect has been swept away by an urbanism that is a bit too coquettish in recent years, with white fences and dirt roads in town. Near the city center and the train station, you will find the Skagen Art Museum and a number of stores.Stroll through the harbor, between the pleasure boats and the fishermen who bring in the second largest tonnage of fish in Denmark. Travel to the extreme tip of Denmark, where the waves of the Baltic and the North Sea collide. Discover, in the middle of a lunar landscape, the latest creation of the architect of the Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon.Of course, in July, the crowds are there. It must be said that this northernmost point of continental Denmark is also the sunniest: 1,996 hours per year, compared to 1,753 hours in Copenhagen.