Visit Horsens with Children

Have you heard of Horsens, Denmark? If you’re planning a family getaway, visiting Horsens with children is a delightful experience! Horsens is a perfect family-friendly destination! Traditional Danish summerhouses are scattered along the coastline of East Jutland north and south of Horsens, offering the perfect surroundings for a family getaway near nature, beaches with shallow water, amazing playgrounds, and coastal quaintness galore.

Within Horsens’s city center, you will find museums, shopping, eateries, indoor play parks and cultural experiences enthrall. All museums have made sure, that their exhibitions also cater to a young crowd, with games, riddles and tasks to be solved during the visit.

If you’re an active family, Horsens has an abundance of nature – cycle the car-free Nature Pathway Horsens-Silkeborg along an old, discontinued railway to The Uncovered Bridge, or take a 1-2 hour trip at Bygholm Lake or Nørrestrand Nature Reserve. If you like swimming – the water park and public pool, Aqua Forum, make for a fun afternoon.

If you’re travelling with older kids, then no problem! Drop in to the Board Game Café, where over 500 games and Shuffle Boards await. Horsens has so much to offer without the hustle-and-bustle of a capital city.

This guide to visiting Horsens with children, has been created in collaboration with Destination Kystlandet.

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When travelling to Horsens with children, you should know that every season offers a unique experience. In spring, the cherry trees blossom at the boulevard leading up to the Prison Museum. During summer the shallow, child-friendly coastlines offer some of Denmark’s best beaches. During fall the foliage colors the Danish Highlands a deep orange, and winter drizzles snow on the rooftops and allows for an authentic Danish cold plunge.

Danish kids play outside all year round, but if it’s raining you can always go to one of the indoor playgrounds, child-friendly museums or public indoor pools.

In August you can join Northern Europe’s largest medieval festival with lots of fun for the whole family. This is a free entrance.

During the Christmas period, the city centre of Horsens is covered with twinkling lights and offers lots of free “hygge” – such as a Christmas train, carousel, concerts and traditional Danish hot rice porridge. The largest Christmas market takes place at Fængslet (The Prison) in November.