Knuthenborg Safaripark, Lolland

Name: Knuthenborg Safaripark
Address: Lolland, Denmark

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Knuthenborg Safaripark is a safari park on the island of Lolland in the southeast of Denmark. It is located 7 km to the north of Maribo, near Bandholm. It is one of Lolland's major tourist attractions with over 250,000 visitors annually, and is the largest safari park in northern Europe. It is also the largest natural playground for both children and adults in Denmark. Among others, it houses an arboretum, aviaries, a drive-through safari park, a monkey forest and a tiger enclosure. Knuthenborg covers a total of 660 hectares, including the 400-hectare Safaripark. The park is viewable on Google Street View. ()

Alternative names: Area: 1.47 mi²Visitors per year: 223 thous.Animals: 1000Species: 40Coordinates: 54°49'25"N, 11°30'7"E

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Nearby attractions include: Orebygaard, Maribo Cathedral, Maribo Abbey, Maribo Open-Air Museum.

3.8 miE
Manor house, Renaissance architecture
Orebygaard, Sakskøbing
97 min walk • Orebygaard is a manor house and estate located on Lolland in southeastern Denmark. The current main building, a Neo-Renaissance style building with two towers, is from 1872–1874.
3.5 miS
Historical place, Sacred and religious sites, Church
Maribo Cathedral, Maribo
90 min walk • Maribo Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral church in Maribo on the island of Lolland in the southeast of Denmark. It was originally part of Maribo Abbey which was founded in the early 15th century.
3.5 miS
Church
Maribo Abbey, Lolland
90 min walk • Maribo Abbey, established in 1416, was the first Bridgettine monastery in Denmark and became one of the most important Danish abbeys of the late Middle Ages. It was located in the present town of Maribo on the island of Lolland in southern Denmark. The monastery is in ruins, but the abbey church still remains in use as Maribo Cathedral.
3.7 miS
Specialty museum, Museum
Maribo Open-Air Museum, Maribo
96 min walk • Maribo Open-Air Museum is a museum located on the western outskirts of Maribo on the Danish island of Lolland. It is located 1 kilometre from Torvet, to the west of the Maribo Sø Camping site and oak woodland, near the northern banks of Søndersø Lake.
3.3 miS
History museum, Museum
Stiftsmuseum Maribo, Maribo
84 min walk • Stiftsmuseum Maribo, also known as the Maribo County Museum, is a museum located in the centre of Maribo on the Danish island of Lolland. Its archeological and cultural heritage collections are housed in a specially designed building completed in 1890.
1.8 miS
Church, Romanesque architecture
Hunseby Church, Maribo
47 min walk • Hunseby Church is located in the village of Hunseby some 3 km north of Maribo on the Danish island of Lolland. Built in the middle of the 12th century, the church has a Romanesque chancel and nave and a Gothic tower.
4.9 miSE
Manor house
Engestofte, Maribo
124 min walk • Engestofte is a Neoclassical manor house located 6 km east of Maribo, Lolland Municipality, on the island of Lolland in southeastern Denmark.
3.2 miS
Stela
Sædinge Runestone, Maribo
83 min walk • The Sædinge Runestone or DR 217 is a Viking Age runestone engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark runic alphabet. It is in granite and measures 174 cm in height, 79 m in width and it is 69 cm thick, and it is dated to the period 970–1020. The style of the runestone is the runestone style RAK.
3.4 miSW
Romanesque architecture, Church
Østofte Kirke, Lolland
87 min walk • Østofte Church, located in the village of Nørreballe on the Danish island of Lolland, was built in the 14th century. The Romanesque apse, chancel and nave formed the original building while the tower and porch were added in the Late-Gothic period and the north wing was completed in 1656.
5.6 miW
Romanesque architecture, Church
Stokkemarke Kirke, Lolland
142 min walk • Stokkemarke Church is located in the village of Stokkemarke some 11 km northwest of Maribo on the Danish island of Lolland. Dating from the middle of the 13th century it was built in the Romanesque style with later additions in the Gothic period.
0.6 miNW
Manor house
Knuthenborg, Bandholm
16 min walk • Knuthenborg is a manor house located 6 km north of Maribo on the Danish island of Lolland. Originally known as Årsmarke, it was first mentioned in 1372. Today's building was completed in 1866 to a design by Henrik Steffens Sibbern.