When we stopped in Aarhus, I was totally unfamiliar with the city. Quite frankly, I had never heard of Aarhus before the cruise and I doubted that there was much to be seen here. However, we were pleasantly surprised. We did a hastily manufactured walking tour of the city, ignoring the city’s main attraction, an open-air folk museum known as Den Gamle By.

We walked into town from the cruise ship dock and immediately stopped at the Cathedral.

Aarhus Cathedral

Also on the Main Square was a small, free Viking Museum, in the basement of a bank. The museum was quite interesting, chronicling the Viking presence in this area of the world. One of the most intriguing artifacts uncovered when the bank was constructed here was a skeleton, dating to the time of the Vikings, of a man who had been decapitated.

Viking Museum Skeleton

A little later in our walk, we strolled down a delightful lane with pastel-colored houses, displaying hollyhocks and roses.

Mollestien

Before departing from the cute little village of Aarhus, we took a look inside the Cathedral to see the exquisite carved, wooden altarpiece.

Altar of Aarhus Cathedral