Dinamarca do Sul · Denmark
In the destination Ribe and the Mar de Wadden.
In the photo: Ribe Cathedral
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Ribe is the oldest town in Denmark, in southwest Jutland, with a Viking market active since the early 8th century. The centre of timber-framed houses surrounds the country's oldest cathedral, and two museums tell the Viking story. To the west, the Mar de Wadden, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site, features the sol negro of the starlings and the low-tide crossing to Mandø.
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The local experience
The oldest cathedral in Denmark, built of volcanic stone from the Rhine, with the Torre dos Cidadãos, from which you can see the plain stretching to the Mar de Wadden, and an apse decorated in the 1980s by Carl-Henning Pedersen.
The cobbled streets and half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries around the cathedral and the river, with the old port and the flood column. In summer, the night watchman makes his rounds singing old verses.
The museum of Viking and medieval Ribe, opposite the station, with objects from excavations of the 8th-century market, a reconstruction of the market street and the town's life in the Middle Ages.
The reconstructed Viking village 3 km south of Ribe, with longhouses, a market, workshops, fields and animals, where people dressed in period clothing cook, forge and demonstrate life from the 8th to the 10th centuries. Open seasonally.
The tidal plains, marshes and dykes west of Ribe, part of the Mar de Wadden, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The visitor centre in Vester Vedsted explains the birds and the tides and organises outings for the black sun and for oyster gathering.
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