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Day Trips

Beyond its own charms, Copenhagen also serves as a great gateway to the rest of the Nordic region. The train from the central station to Kastrup Airport is fast, frequent, and cheap. Even the airport defies normal travel drudgery: it's flooded with light and exceptionally well designed.

From Kastrup, it's a 70-minute flight to Stockholm, which is arguably more elegant than Denmark but far less lively. A similar flight gets you to the Norwegian capital, Oslo, so you could easily make a daytrip to see the two versions of Edvard Munch's The Scream, at the Munch Museum and the National Gallery. Helsinki is 90 minutes away by air, and St. Petersburg is just 2 hours. If you make one of these side trips, you'll find that as easy as it is to leave Copenhagen, it's always a pleasure to come back.

From the city it's easy to reach excellent beaches. One of the best is Bellevue, a 20-minute train ride via the S-train to Klampenborg. Bellevue is part of the Bellavista estate, a seaside development designed by Arne Jacobsen in the 1930s.

It's a 30-minute train ride over the bridge to Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, which is now, in effect, a suburb of Copenhagen. Stroll the cobbled streets and see one of the most stunning skyscrapers in Europe: Santiago Calatrava's Turning Torso.

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