Skagen

The northernmost town in Denmark, and its main fishing port, which began as a medieval herring village. Towards the end of the nineteenth century its seascapes, its fishermen and above all its evening light drew the painters now known as the Skagen Painters, and the artistic community they started has never entirely left. The galleries and crafts shops are still part of the town’s income. The railway opened in 1890 and the modern port in 1907, and tourism followed. St Lawrence’s Church, built outside the village in the late fourteenth century, was buried by drifting sand and replaced in 1841.