© Photo by Raúl M. Menacho
Being third-largest city in Denmark should not fool you - Odense is still small enough, and still under-discovered by mass tourism. It's a lively university town with pedestrian areas in the centre, full of social life and extremely proud for being a birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen - arguably, the greatest fairy-tales author ever lived. Andersen monument meets you on the central square, and you will also find a writer's museum