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Spend Christmas like the Danish

Freya McOmish, Scandinavia Standard

Why spend Christmas like the Danes?

Feel Denmark at its warmest at Christmas. Come and enjoy our naughty elves (we call them nisse), discover an almond hidden in your rice pudding, try dancing around a Christmas tree and take in the sights, sounds and scents of a traditional Danish Christmas. Glædelig jul!

Christmas in Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli is transformed over Christmas into a winter wonderland of lights, sights and magical experiences for all the family.

Get into the Christmas 'hygge'

Hygge is an essential part of every Danish Christmas.

Drink a Christmas fairy tale

The bar at the iconic Nimb Hotel knows how to make a cocktail taste like a festive fairy tale.

How the Danes do Christmas

You can join the midsummer's eve celebrations all across Denmark

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