Attractions in Ribe
With its outstanding status as Denmark's oldest and best preserved town, dating back to the Viking Age, Ribe offers unique atmosphere and sights. Distance from the cruise ship 30 km, 35 min by car, train or bus.
Museet Ribes Vikinger
Revealing Ribe’s history from the Viking period and Middle Ages to the year 1700 in the very spot where the very first town in the Nordic region was founded in around the year 700 A.D.
Ribe Cathedral - Denmark's oldest cathedral
Denmark's oldest cathedral, construction on the building started in approx. 1150. In the cathedral gallery which contains an entrance from the tower, there is a museum that presents the cathedral's construction history.
Ribe Art Museum
A stroll through Ribe Kunstmuseum's beautiful rooms is a walk through 200 years of art history.
Jacob A. Riis Museum in Ribe
The story of Jacob A. Riis is the story of almost hitting rock bottom in the worst of New York’s neighbourhoods, and the story of how toil, the will to create a better society and belief in himself turned the boy from Ribe into what the President called “the ideal American”.
St. Catharinæ Church and Abbey in Ribe
St. Catharinæ Church and Abbey, was built by the Dominicans, called the Black Friars due to their black caps they wore outside the monastery.
HEX! Museum of Witch Hunt in Ribe
HEX! this new museum in Ribe tells the story of witch-hunting in Denmark and Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.