Discover Auning: Culture, Cuisine and Nature

Auning brings together a variety of travel ideas: the Banestien connects Allingåbro and Auning, while historic manor-house culture, old churches, nature experiences and cooking together round out the offering. This allows you to shape your stay according to your preferred holiday pace – with exercise, history, culinary experiences or a mixture of everything.

Trails, Nature and Local History

Anyone who wants to get to know Auning actively can include the Banestien in their travel plans. Three burial mounds registered as protected archaeological monuments lie along the route. This combination of landscape and history gives the trail an additional perspective, without requiring you to limit your visit to a single attraction.

Another facet of nature is Porsbakkerne, a protected natural area covering 10 hectares. This creates a contrast with the cultural destinations in your daily plans: here, the landscape takes centre stage, while elsewhere historic buildings, collections or culinary offerings set the tone. Auning Bypark also has three tiled starting markers – a specific detail that makes the park another identifiable point of reference when planning your time in the town.

Manor House, Church and Museum

Gammel Estrup is one of Denmark’s best-preserved Renaissance manor houses. Its historic interiors show how the ruling family and servants lived over a period of 400 years. Anyone interested in architecture, social history and past ways of life will therefore find more than just an exterior view here: the rooms make different aspects of historical everyday life easier to understand.

Auning Church also tells the story of the town’s history. For more than 400 years, it was the parish church of the owners of Gammel Estrup. The oldest part dates from the 12th century and is a Romanesque church interior. As an old medieval church in the northern part of the town, it complements the manor-house history with a religious and local perspective.

At the Green Museum, visitors can experience hunting, forestry, agriculture and food in a single museum. Groups have several options for guided tours and educational programmes. This makes a museum visit particularly appealing if you want to explore different subjects not separately, but as part of a coherent experience.

Cooking Together and Planning Your Day Flexibly

MADENS HUS offers culinary experiences for families, groups and companies all year round. Participants can cook in four authentic historic kitchens. Companies, clubs and other larger groups can book cooking classes in these kitchens. For families, this provides a different way to spend a holiday day: not just the finished meal, but preparing it together becomes the real experience.

Auning’s practical amenities also include the Auning swimming pool. It has lifts in the changing rooms as well as at the teaching pool and the warm-water pool. Anyone who wants to take different daily rhythms into account alongside excursions when planning their trip can include this aspect when choosing activities.

The Right Accommodation Idea for Your Stay

When looking for a holiday apartment or holiday home in Auning, it is worth first deciding on your preferred focus. For days centred on culture, Gammel Estrup, Auning Church and the Green Museum offer different ways to explore history and tradition. If you prefer shared experiences, you can include MADENS HUS in your plans. Nature, trail experiences and time in the town can, by contrast, be incorporated into your travel ideas through Porsbakkerne, the Banestien and Auning Bypark.

This allows you to choose your accommodation according to your own mix of holiday activities: days filled with historical insights, shared cooking moments or a varied sequence of different activities. Auning is not limited to a single theme, but offers several starting points for a customised trip.

More Places to Explore

If you would like to extend your travel plans to include other places, you can also visit Ørum Djurs, Fjellerup, Gjerrild, Bønnerup Strand, Selkær, Grenå Strand, Allingåbro and Glesborg.

For the main travel overview: Norddjurs Municipality.