Jutland: Places to Explore

Kolding

Kolding is an interesting city that screams "design." It's the home of the Danish School of Art & Design, as important to this country as the Parsons School of Design is to the United States, or the Ontario College of Art & Design is to Canada. It's also a link between other Scandinavian cities (Malmö, Sweden, is 250 km away and Hamburg, Germany, is only 250 km away). The city is home to 63,000 residents and is the seventh-largest town in Denmark. It's near the country's second-largest international airport at Billund.

The city itself is a pleasing blend of old and new, with a historical center of cobbled streets and brightly painted half-timber houses that give way to industrial suburbs. But what attracts many visitors is the Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, which has an extensive collection of Danish artworks and furniture. Complementing this museum is, oddly, the Koldinghus, an imposing stone structure from the Middle Ages that itself won a couple of international design awards in the 20th century.

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