Introduction
West Jutland, the north part, with the “Drivvejen” walking-route is a great experience in terms of the history of civilisation and can offer almost all types of landscape.
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To the west the North Sea forms a magnificent border with an impressive coastline, dunes, marsh and meadows. Today the coastal area is a larder for thousands of migrating birds and it has fantastic birdlife. To the north the Limfjord region has a more friendly, undulating landscape alternating between fertile clay soil and gentle hills. |
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Heath plains mark the central eastern part of the region and in times past it was the most deserted and least inhabited part. Ice and melt water, the wind and sea have created and shaped the landscape of West Jutland. And as long as they have lived in Denmark, people have also characterised and used this environment and left their mark on the landscape. These traces of historical civilisation are evident in a large number of burial mounds, churches, dune farms and not least roads and traces of old roads. |
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