Cities / Aalborg
Denmark
Aalborg: Vikings on a hill, herring in a fjord, a merchant’s house and a war.
Aalborg sits on the Limfjord, which explains everything. A historian walks the Viking burial ground at Lindholm Høje, the herring trade that paid for Jens Bang’s house, the merchant streets of the Renaissance town, and the airfield the Germans took on the first morning of the occupation in 1940.
The timeline the walk follows
Seven hundred Viking and Iron Age graves on the hill across the fjord.
Herring and cattle across the Limfjord.
The richest merchant’s house in Denmark, still standing.
De Danske Spritfabrikker; industrial Aalborg.
German paratroops take the airfield at dawn.
Themes
Choose one, or name your own.
Two hours covers one theme well. Three hours links two.
- Vikings at Lindholm Høje
- Herring, cattle and the Limfjord
- Renaissance Aalborg: Jens Bang and the merchants
- Aquavit, cement and tobacco: industrial Aalborg
- Occupation and resistance, 1940 to 1945
Private walk
Your group only, your questions, your pace.
Group walk
Schools, companies, cruise and coach groups. Larger groups split.
Your theme
A period, a person, a family story. We find the historian who knows it.
Led by
A historian from Aalborg, from LocalBini’s vetted network
Meeting point
Central, confirmed in your booking email
Not included
Entry tickets to monuments and museums
Questions
About Aalborg.
Is Lindholm Høje walkable?
It is across the fjord; two hours in town, or three hours with a bus to the site.
Cruise groups?
Yes. We meet at the quay and return on time.
Cancellation?
Free cancellation up to 7 days before the walk. Within 7 days the walk is non refundable, since the historian has reserved the time. We reschedule for severe weather at no cost.
Walk Aalborg with a historian.
Date, time, length and theme. We reply within a day and confirm your historian within two to three.