Værløse

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Understand The Arne Jakobsen designed life guard tower on the Bellevue beach, is symbolic for the area It used to be heavily forested, a heritage still visible today with its many parks, lakes and forest. The area became a favourite excursion destination for city dwellers during the early days of Denmark's industrialisation, when trams and trains would be full of people going to the entertainment areas north of the city on Sundays and other holidays. Most of the places have since closed down, but the small but charming Dyrehavsbakken amusement park is the oldest still functioning in the world. The nearby horse racing tracks and surrounding forest continues to draw hordes of city folk on public holidays and weekends. A trip on the hundred-year-old tour Baadfarten ferries sailing on the lakes and canals near Lyngby will give you a taste of days gone by. These canals and lakes are remains of an elaborate defence for the city, where the canals would draw water of the lakes to flood the low-lying areas to thwart would-be invaders.…

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