GoMore Guide: South Zealand

Explore the art, history, and scenic routes of South Zealand with GoMore. Experience everything from ARKEN to Egeskov Castle on a great road trip. Find our guide here.


We have created this guide in collaboration with gogoo, which we think is a really good match with our GoMore Guide. Gogoo is your personal event and culture guide, and they want to make it easy and fast to find new and fun experiences. You can download their app, tell them what interests you, and they will recommend events and experiences to you.

Rent the car on GoMore and embark on an adventure.

Get out of the city with GoMore and explore gogoo’s guide to fantastic experiences in South Zealand.

Do you need to get out of town and have exciting cultural and nature experiences in tow?

Then hop in the GoMore car and drive the loveliest route to beautiful, southern Zealand, where you can explore various kinds of art, experience beautiful landscapes and breathtaking coastline, visit a unique and entertaining forest park, and much more! You can take the entire route in one go, or you can select individual stops on the trip that you are particularly interested in.

Check out the guide below and look forward to experiencing a fantastic road trip with beautiful and interesting stops along the way.

The Route // CPH - South Zealand

  • ARKEN
  • Køge Museum (Museum Southeast Denmark) or KØS Museum
  • Gisselfeld Monastery & Castle Garden and the Paradehuset
  • Klippingegård Farm Shop
  • Forest Tower/Adventure Camp
  • Stevns Cliff
  • Holmegaard Works (Museum Southeast Denmark)

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ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

Start the journey by heading south to the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. ARKEN Museum is beautifully situated in the man-made landscape, Køge Bay Beach Park. At ARKEN, you can explore one of Scandinavia's finest collections of contemporary art and the museum's maritime architecture, which protrudes from the terrain around the building. When hunger strikes, you can enjoy a quality meal or a cup of coffee in the museum café, which offers a beautiful sea view.

Location: Skovvej 100, 2635 Ishøj

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Køge Museum or KØS Museum - Museum for Art in Public Space

The journey then continues further south to Køge Museum, where experiences await for the whole family or to the KØS Museum for Art in Public Space, which exhibits, produces, and communicates art projects by national and international artists.

Køge Museum is centrally located in Køge city in the old merchant's house from 1619. In the museum's exhibitions, you can look forward to taking a journey through Køge's history. From the mighty Viking Age to the hunter-gatherer people in the Stone Age.

At the KØS Museum, you can go on a visual journey through Danish history, as the visual artist Bjørn Nørgaard depicts in colorful and eye-catching 1:1 sketches for the Queen's tapestries in their current exhibition "Bjørn Nørgaard's cartoons for the Queen's tapestries."

Locations: Nørregade 4, 4600 Køge & Nørregade 29, 4600 Køge

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Gisselfeld Monastery & Castle Garden and the Paradehuset

When you feel saturated with historical and modern art, you take the car further to one of Denmark's oldest and best-preserved Renaissance castles, Gisselfeld Monastery, which is beautifully surrounded by the monastery's magnificent and beautiful landscape garden. Here you can explore the beautiful park and nature, visit the enchanting orangery, Paradehuset, which sells historical plants, pots, and garden articles, and enjoy a quiet moment in the tea salon "Nattergalen". Gisselfeld offers a wealth of experiences - during the autumn holidays, there is a treasure hunt for the whole family, and in November, you can look forward to Denmark's coziest Christmas market.

Location: Gisselfeldvej 3, 5, 4690 Haslev

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Klippingegård Farm Shop

The journey then continues further south to Stevns, where you can visit Klippingegård Farm Shop. Here, delicious quality vegetables are grown to support the local community. Go hunting in the romantic farm shop, which is overflowing with homegrown fruits and vegetables in season. Enjoy the delicacies in the beautiful surroundings or take them home for your next meal.

Location: Bjælkerupvej 165, 4672 Klippinge

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Forest Tower - Camp Adventure

Move on to a unique and sensory experience that gives you butterflies in your stomach. In the middle of Gisselfeld Monastery's Forest, you start your tour at the old water mill, where you embark on a walk that winds adventurously through the forest and trees until the 45-meter-high Forest Tower suddenly appears. Here, you go through 12 circles towards the top, where along the way you see the forest in entirely new perspectives, and at the end, you step out onto the viewing platform. Here awaits you the most beautiful view over the South Zealand landscape.

Location: Skovtårnsvej 1, 4683 Rønnede

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Stevns Cliff

The drive then goes to yet another unique nature experience. Further south, you'll find Stevns Cliff, which is part of UNESCO's World Heritage - a truly unique place on Earth. Stevns Klint is approximately 17 km long steep coastline. Here you can experience the impressive, steep sides of the cliff from the beach below, or you can enjoy the majestic view over the sea from the top of the cliff. Explore the beautiful coastline, which offers several cultural experiences, unmatched nature, and local specialties and craftsmanship.

Location: Stevns Klint, 4660 Store Heddinge

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Holmegaard Works

In beautiful surroundings at the edge of Holmegaard Mose, you find the last stop on the route, Holmegaard Works. Here you can experience Denmark's first, last, and only existing glassworks and explore a world of design, tradition, craftsmanship, and history - from live glass blowers to international world-class exhibitions and from artisans to designers. In their current special exhibition, "The Chosen" by artist and ceramicist Louise Hindsgavl, you can learn more about what it looks like when history is transformed into art.

Location: Glasværksvej 55, 4684 Holmegaard

Rent a car on GoMore from friendly people in your neighborhood, drive out into the countryside, and have an adventure.

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