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Photo: Smukfest.dk, GFDL via Wikimedia Commons
Once a year the town comes to life as it hosts the second largest music festival of Denmark, "Danmarks Smukkeste Festival" or simply "SmukFest". Always taking place the second weekend of August, it hosts around 50,000 guests and a line-up consisting of mostly strong, national names but well-known international acts as well. The festival has 4 full days of music, several camps sites as well as plenty of different activities surrounding the grounds. The atmosphere is light and the festival is well known for its open-minded and positive nature with only very few incidents being reported. A full ticket will set you back 2000 DKK, but there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy the shenanigans for free. The town really is different during that week of the year, the presence of the festival being felt all over.
Smukfest is an annual music festival, held during the second weekend of August in Denmark. Its location, in a beech forest in the vicinity of Skanderborg, has given rise to the slogan "Denmark's Most Beautiful Festival".
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In the forest just nearby the youth hostel, some old bunkers are situated. During the German occupation in WWII they served as the Danish head quarters of the Luftwaffe, and later a small detention camp, and is now a delightful little museum, displaying many interesting artifacts and foundings from the war and the local area in particular.