Celebrating Christmas and New Year in Denmark is a delightful experience. You will enjoy the traditions and rich culture that the Danish have to share.
The Danish believe that every Christmas a mischievous Danish elf Nisse plays pranks on people but this only happens during the Holiday season. On Christmas Eve in Denmark, many families leave a bowl of rice, pudding or porridge for the elf so that he is friendly to them and avoids doing hurting jokes or pranks.
Christmas trees are decorated by both the young and the old and the traditional Christmas in Denmark starts on December 23. On this date, a hot cinnamon-laced rice pudding is served along with some butter. On December 24, the Danes often have a delicious Christmas dinner served with duck or goose, red cabbage and potatoes.
Some great places to see and experience a Danish Christmas involves going to the Tivoli Gardens. The festivities in the gardens provide a great flair that will surely light up you day during the Christmas season. The Christmas Town in Two Horsens is also a famous tourist attraction during Christmas. You?ll see small and colourful wooden houses decorated with various lights, Christmas trees and presents. In the Horsens, you can buy all sorts of things such as wooden toys, hats, almonds artworks and Christmas decors.
For the New Year, the Danish celebrate with lots of fun and merrymaking. Many parties, songs and dances accompanied by champagne are one of the main things that happen during the New Year?s Eve in Denmark. The New Year here is also marked by two important traditional events that are broadcast on television and radio every New Year. One of them is known to be the monarch?s New year speech while the other is striking of midnight by the Town Hall clock located in Copenhagen.
The New Year?s Eve sky is illuminated with dazzling fireworks along with loud claps and noisy bangs to supposedly ward of evil spirits and bad luck. Christmas and New Year in Denmark will definitely be an amazing and fun-filled experience.
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