The Lighthouse at Bellevue Strand
I visited this beautiful beach and lighthouse on a stormy morning and left it in almost sunshine. This photo was taken just after it stopped raining.
Bellevue Beach is a is a 700-metre-long sandy beach at Klampenborg on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The iconic lighthouse or lighthouses, cause there is two of them, have quite a history. In the 1930s, when the right to vacation became legally mandated, Denmark's coastline became the country's most popular holiday destination. Gentofte Municipality made plans to develop a piece of coastline north of Copenhagen into a seaside resort complex combining an existing park designed by the landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen with beach facilities catering to some 15,000 paying visitors a day. Three architects were invited to submit plans for a Bellevue beach complex. The winner was the young architect Arne Jacobsen, who had just opened his office. Characteristic of his approach to architecture and design—he was preoccupied with the concept of Gesamtkunst—Jacobsen designed everything from bathing cabins, lifeguard towers and kiosks to tickets and uniforms for the staff. The complex also included the Bellavista apartment buildings (1934), a restaurant and the Bellevue Theatre (1936), all of which still stand today in the immediate vicinity of the beach.
The beach with the lighthouses opened in 1932.
The Lighthouse at Bellevue Strand
I visited this beautiful beach and lighthouse on a stormy morning and left it in almost sunshine. This photo was taken just after it stopped raining.
Bellevue Beach is a is a 700-metre-long sandy beach at Klampenborg on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The iconic lighthouse or lighthouses, cause there is two of them, have quite a history. In the 1930s, when the right to vacation became legally mandated, Denmark's coastline became the country's most popular holiday destination. Gentofte Municipality made plans to develop a piece of coastline north of Copenhagen into a seaside resort complex combining an existing park designed by the landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen with beach facilities catering to some 15,000 paying visitors a day. Three architects were invited to submit plans for a Bellevue beach complex. The winner was the young architect Arne Jacobsen, who had just opened his office. Characteristic of his approach to architecture and design—he was preoccupied with the concept of Gesamtkunst—Jacobsen designed everything from bathing cabins, lifeguard towers and kiosks to tickets and uniforms for the staff. The complex also included the Bellavista apartment buildings (1934), a restaurant and the Bellevue Theatre (1936), all of which still stand today in the immediate vicinity of the beach.
The beach with the lighthouses opened in 1932.