Vikings, Aquavit & the Fjord That Built a City
At the narrowest crossing of the Limfjord, a Viking trading post grew into one of Scandinavia's wealthiest merchant cities. Aalborg — Denmark's fourth-largest city — hoards 1,000 years of stories: Norse burial mounds, a perfectly preserved medieval castle, and the birthplace of the world's most famous aquavit.
Follow the fjord through ten stops that span from the Viking Age to a modern waterfront renaissance. Every cobblestone has a tale, and every tale ends with a sip of something golden.
"Aalborg er ikke en by — det er en stemning." (Aalborg is not a city — it is a mood.) — local saying