Holiday Accommodation in Roskilde Municipality: Culture, Fjord and Nature

The Viking Ship Hall at the Viking Ship Museum permanently displays the five Skuldelev ships and tells the story of the ships and Nordic maritime adventure during the Viking Age. Roskilde Municipality combines this maritime heritage with music history, historic buildings, fjord trails and protected natural areas.

Culture and History

From 1 May to 30 September, the Viking Ship Museum offers daily sailing trips in a traditional Nordic wooden boat. The Museum Island also houses a boatyard where visitors can watch shipbuilders at work.

Roskilde Cathedral is a Gothic medieval cathedral, royal mausoleum and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Roskilde. More than 40 Danish kings and queens are buried in its richly decorated royal chapels; the cathedral also offers tours of the royal chapels. Sankt Laurentius comprises a church tower and an underground church ruin two metres below Stændertorvet in the centre of Roskilde.

The Roskilde Museum presents the cultural history of Roskilde and the surrounding region through archaeological finds and more recent objects. Rockmuseet focuses on a different aspect of culture: it tells the story of Danish rock and pop music from the 1950s to the present day. Visitors can explore interactive exhibitions and music-related installations there. Musicon is a post-industrial venue for urban culture, community and entrepreneurship.

Events

Roskilde Festival is an annual eight-day music and culture festival held in Roskilde. In addition to concerts, it offers art, talks, films, workshops, communal meals and activities at the festival site and in the camping areas.

Trails and Cycling Routes

The signposted circular route “Sti til Naturen” is 12.5 kilometres long and starts at Roskilde Cathedral. Roskilde Municipality has five signposted, family-friendly cycling loops ranging from 10 to 20 kilometres in length. For longer distances, there is the Fjordstien: an approximately 275-kilometre cycling and hiking trail in total that runs around Roskilde Fjord and Isefjord.

The Hedebostien connects Roskilde Fjord and Køge Bugt while also passing close to natural and cultural-historical attractions. The medieval city of Roskilde is an important part of Skjoldungernes Land National Park.

Nature and Water

Roskilde Fjord is designated as an international nature conservation area under Natura 2000. Roskilde Municipality has at least nine bathing spots. Gundsømagle Sø is a bird sanctuary with an 800-metre-long informal path along the southern shore and a roughly 300-metre-long boardwalk through the reeds.

At the Gundsømagle Sø nature reserve, visitors can follow paths into the reeds and to the bird towers and experience protected wildlife and plant life. A circular route from the car park near Østrup to the reed labyrinth and back is approximately 3.5 kilometres long.

Bolund is a protected peninsula north of Risø in Roskilde Fjord and part of Skjoldungernes Land National Park. The path to Bolund crosses the beach meadow for approximately 500 metres; the entire circular route is about 3.2 kilometres long.

Getting There and Holiday Accommodation

The train journey from Copenhagen to Roskilde takes approximately 25 minutes. Thanks to its manageable distances, Roskilde is easy to explore on foot or by rental bike.

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Visit Roskilde, Jyllinge, Svogerslev, Viby Sj and Gadstrup. You can find other municipalities at the same level under Stevns Municipality, Vordingborg Municipality and Næstved Municipality

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