Bellevue Beach

Bellevue Strand is a 700 m sandy beach at Klampenborg, about 10 km north of central Copenhagen in Gentofte Municipality, backed by lawns and the 1930s Arne Jacobsen ensemble of kiosks, changing cabins and striped lifeguard towers. Opened in 1932, it was the city's main summer beach and still draws up to half a million visits a year, though Amager Strandpark has taken some of the crowd since 2005. The water is the shallow, calm Øresund, facing east, so mornings get the sun. Nude sunbathing here is a long-standing Danish habit rather than a marked zone: an English-language list of European nude places says the beach has a popular nudist section, while a beach-guide site says nudity is simply accepted along the beach, as on Danish beaches generally. We did not find a source that fixes where nude bathers gather, so expect to see them mixed with clothed families on a busy day and look along the quieter ends of the beach.