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 About Århus
With a population of more than 300,000, Århus is Denmark's second largest city. It is at heart, however, also Denmark’s youngest city when you consider the average age of its habitants which is far lower than anywhere else in the country. At the University of Aarhus alone there are nearly 40,000 students, and there are more than 25 educational and research institutions in the city. But Århus is also a city with clearly visible roots, founded, as it was, by the Vikings in the 8th century.

Denmark’s youngest city
Århus is at heart Denmark’s youngest city. Because every fifth, or thereabouts, of its inhabitants is a student at one of the city’s 25 educational and research institutions, and this gives the city a young and exciting vibrancy of its very own. This is clearly in evidence along the ’Vadestedet’ by the river, where there used to be a ford in the early days of the city and where the student population today frequents the many bars and restaurants packed tightly in there.

But also, they are to be found, of course, in and around the University of Aarhus and its characteristic yellow-brick buildings which are an architectural gem in the beautiful University Park which now almost extends into the old town centre. The city and the university form a unique symbiosis which has a special attraction on students and lecturers from all over the world.

1250 years of city history
At the same time Århus is a city which is also very conscious about its roots. Århus could well be Denmark’s oldest city; evidence has been found which shows that there was a Viking settlement here as early as the 8th century. The Vikings settled by the mouth of the river – at the very spot where the Cathedral today rises into the sky with its tower soaring to more than 90 metres in height. The ’Bispetorv’ square was also the centre of the town 1,250 years ago, and in The Viking Museum you are standing right next to the rampart which the Vikings built around Århus in the 10th century.

The Århus River (Åboulevarden) with its many cosy bars and cafés.

Shopping and relaxing in Århus
Enjoy yourself going shopping in the narrow, cobbel stoned streets of the Latin Quarter with its trend-setting designshops or stroll along the “Strøget”, a 1,000 meter pedestrian street with more than 150 shops offering everything you could wish for. Enjoy relaxing at one of the city’s cosy and modern café’s along side the river of Århus or strolling in the woods or along the sandy beaches before taking your pick among the international selection of restaurants. Århus is also a centre of art and culture. At the medioage museum “Moesgård Museum” you can travel back to the very earliest period of the Viking Age. At the “Den Gamle By” (the Old Town) you step right into life at It was in a Danish provincial town in the days of Hans Christian Andersen. And the AroS Museum of Arts is known and admired throughout the world.