page_title: Varde
section_title: Tourist places in and around Varde
hierarchical_section_title: Varde / Tourist places in and around Varde
caption_attribution_description: English: Top half of the lighthouse in Blåvand(Varde) with a photographer taking a picture
context_page_description: Varde is a Danish city in southwestern Jutland and is the primary city in the municipality of Varde, in Region of Southern Denmark. In 2015 municipality changed its motto to "We in nature" to emphasize its rural atmosphere. The town has an old market environment and is located by Varde stream/river and is a short distance away from the beaches by the North Sea. These features make it a tourist destination. The age of Varde is not known precisely, but it is mentioned in written sources from 1107 A.D. and is therefore thought have been founded sometime in the early Middle Ages.
context_section_description: The Museum of Varde town and municipality operates as an umbrella for the museums in the municipality of Varde, among these are e.g. Varde Museum, the Tirpitz-position, Nymindegab museum, the Danish amber museum in Oksbøl and more.
  The Tirpitz Museum, a museum built in an old bunker complex and holds exhibitions about the Atlantic Wall, life on the western coast of Denmark and an amber collection.
  Varde Minitown* in the Arnbjergparken in Varde is a miniature of Varde anno 1866 in the scale 1:10, which is maintained and built by 12 voluntary "mini-masons," whose work, making the miniature houses, you can observe from May to October at their workshop in Varde.
  Blåvands Huk/ The lighthouse of Blåvand, the western tip of Denmark, overlooking the wind farms of Horns Rev.
  The beaches along the shore(s) of Varde are among the top crowd pullers/attractions in Varde and a big part of why Varde is a tourist destination. Among these are the broad white beaches of Blåvand, Vejers Strand and Henne Strand, strand meaning beach in Danish.
  Filsø was once the second largest lake in Denmark, until it, in the middle of the 18th century, was contained and used for agricultural purposes. In 2010 the area was bought up by the nature fund of "Aage W. Jensen Filsø Avlsgods" with the purpose of restoring Filsø to its original state.
  Varde Sommerspil in Varde is held by and performed by the biggest amateur theatre group in Denmark, named "7-kanten" and has for many years been a crowd puller in the summer months.
  Nationalpark Vadehavet (Wadden Sea National park, UNESCO world heritage). Mud flats from Varde in the north to the Netherlands in the south.
  Naturpark Vesterhavet (Vesterhavet/North Sea Nature Park) – 22.500 hectares of nature park between Blåvands Huk and Nymindegab.
  Skallingen – the demining of the Westcoast - Skallingen is a relatively newly formed landmass, which was created by/after a storm surge in 1634, by sediment left behind by the retracting ocean. It is still under transformation and was home to the last minefield in Denmark. Post 2000 the area was demined and opened to the public.
  The Oksbøl Refugee Camp museum and cemetery, Oksbøl housed up to 37,000 German Refugees in Denmark after World War II.
caption: Lighthouse in Blåvand(Varde)
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