Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Odense C, Denmark
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3.5 km
49 m
Explore Odense C in Denmark with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Individual Sights in Odense CSight 1: Møntergården
Møntergården is the cultural history museum in Odense, Denmark. It is located at Overgade 48 in a courtyard of half-timbered houses in the Renaissance style.
Sight 2: Vor Frue Kirke
Our Lady Church is a church in Our Lady parish in Odense Municipality.
Sight 3: Odeon
ODEON is a music, theatre and conference centre in Østerbro in Odense, with a central location in the large urban transformation project in the city centre, close to the old Hans Christian Andersen district and Odense Concert Hall 5 minutes from Odense Railway Station Center.
Sight 4: Odense Koncerthus
Odense Concert Hall, which was inaugurated in 1982, is a concert hall located at Claus Bergs Gade 9 in Odense, not far from H. C. Andersen's House. The concert hall is named after Carl Nielsen. The hall is a concert hall with excellent acoustics, with room for 1,212 people and equipped with a 46-voice organ built by one of the world's leading organ buildings, Marcussen &Søn. The concert hall was designed by architects Per Hougaard Nielsen, C.J. Nørgaard Pedersen, Lars Møller and Birthe Rørbæk.
Sight 5: H. C. Andersens Hus
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum or H.C. Andersens Odense, is a set of museums/buildings dedicated to the famous author Hans Christian Andersen in Odense, Denmark, some of which, at various times in history, have functioned as the main Odense-based museum on the author.
Sight 6: St. Alban's Church
St. Alban's Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Odense, Denmark. It should not be confused with the medieval church of St. Alban's Priory where King Canute IV was murdered in 1086, and which was later replaced with St. Canute's Cathedral. The medieval St. Alban's Priory was located at Albani Torv roughly halfway between St. Canute's Cathedral and St. Alban's Church. A modern stone plaque located at the site of the former church's altar is the only visible sign of this structure.
Sight 7: Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster
Odense Noble Virgin Monastery is the name of a building at Albani Torv in Odense, which previously housed a monastery foundation for unmarried noblewomen.
Sight 8: Saint Canute's Cathedral
St. Canute's Cathedral, also known as Odense Cathedral, is named after the Danish king Canute the Saint, otherwise Canute IV. It is a fine example of Brick Gothic architecture. The church's most visited section is the crypt where the remains of Canute and his brother Benedict are on display.
Sight 9: H. C. Andersens Barndomshjem
Hans Christian Andersen's Childhood Home is a small museum, located in Munkemøllestræde 3-5, originally Klingenberg 646 in Odense, and comprises a total area of approx. 42 m², which the shoemaker family with the then two-year-old Hans Christian Andersen moved to in May 1807 and inhabited until 1819. In Hans Christian Andersen's childhood, the house consisted of three apartments. In the first, Hans Christian Andersen lived with his parents, and in the other two apartments, respectively, lived the glovemaker, Frantz Köcker, with family and at the other end of the house, hatter's friend Phillip Schenk and his wife. The Andersen and Köcker families had a common anteroom as an entrance to the two apartments.
Sight 10: Baptistkirken i Odense
The Baptist Church in Odense, also called Christ Church, is a Baptist church in Odense with approx. 280 members, of whom approx. 40% are new Danes. The church was consecrated in 1933, the extension in 1982, the chapel was renovated in 2020.
Sight 11: Nonnebakken
Nonnebakken is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge with the Jomsvikings on Wollin around 975. The fort enabled its occupier to control the Odense River passing next to the hill.
Sight 12: Magasinet
Magasinet is a theater and music venue located as part of the Kulturmachinen building complex in Brandts Passage in Odense. The place has functioned as a concert venue since 1989, when the first concert was held with the band Runrig. Today, the place is used, among other things, for stand-up, concerts, revue theater and film screenings.
Sight 13: Tidens Samling
The Tidens Collection in Odense is a cultural-historical hands-on museum of clothing, form and housing in the 20th century from 1900 - 1990s. Here it is allowed to touch the exhibited objects, because you can sit in the furniture, open the drawers, look in the books and try on the clothes.
Sight 14: Ansgars Kirke
Ansgars Church is a church in Odense, Denmark, within the Diocese of Funen.
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