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Thy National Park stretches south along the North Sea coast for 55 kilometres from Hanstholm lighthouse to Agger Tange. Hanstholm serves as a great base for exploring this vast area.
Thy National Park is a national park area in Thy, Denmark, opened to the public on 22 August 2008. It is located in Northwest Jutland, along the coast from Hanstholm to Agger Tange and it spans 55 km (34 mi) north to south and 5–12 km (3.1–7.5 mi) east to west. The total area of the national park is 244 km2.
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Offers a variety of activities in the high season, such as walking tours, tree climbing, sea kayak courses, diving in Thy National Park, kitesurfing and horse riding on Icelandic ponies.
Hanstholm Fyr
Visitor centre for the Thy National Park with magnificent landscape vistas from the top of the tower. The historic lighthouse is also home to a high-end lunch café and evening gourmet restaurant Lyspunktet, presenting many local delicacies from around Thy, and you can also rent an apartment and stay in the lighthouse.
Large engaging WWII museum fitted out in an old bunker system, part of the 'Atlantic Wall'; an immense German military defence network along the North Atlantic coasts of Europe. From the bunker battery in Hanstholm, the German Wehrmacht could repel an allied invasion and control a strategical important part of the North Sea, during the German occupation. The stronghold in Hanstholm was the largest German fortress in Denmark, manned with a total of 90 soldiers and huge 38 cm cannons. Special events every week.