Aarhus: The second city that comes first

You’ll always have Copenhagen, but Aarhus offers all the hygge (and Nordic cuisine) along with one of the most exciting design scenes on the continent, writes John Wogan.

SO closely associated is Denmark with its capital, Copenhagen, that most visitors unknowingly overlook the country’s second-largest city. Aarhus is another Viking-founded seaside port, this one 98 miles across the Kattegat on the eastern coast of the Jutland peninsula — a town whose modest size (327,000 people) can give it the feel of an overgrown village, complete with cobbled streets and 18th-century facades.