2/12/2024 0 Comments Solvang tower pizza buildingSolvang gives you reasons to stick around and get swallowed into the fairytale forever (or at least until checkout). Windmills, storks, and spires | Benny Marty/Shutterstock And with vineyards getting ready for harvest season and a few big events on the way, fall is the perfect time to check it out. (You know, it's hard to turn down free healthcare and all.) To explore Solvang is to be utterly transported the aroma of Danish pastries fills the streets. Danes really do still live here-although the population of Scandinavian immigrants isn't as high as it used to be. What you won’t see are the typical tourist-town trappings like t-shirt huts, convenience stores, and parking meters. Some buildings are replicas of Copenhagen landmarks like the Round Tower, modeled after a 17th-century observatory (and now the home of Tower Pizza), or the King Christian Tower, inspired by a historic stock exchange building. Look closely and you’ll spy storks perched on rooftops-a symbol of good luck in Danish culture. Splashes of color are seen in brightly painted doors, detailed window trim, and a Danish obsession with flower gardens. Founded by Danish settlers in 1911, nearly every structure in the town’s center is based on traditional Danish architecture, with plenty of brick and half-timbered framing, arched ceilings, spires, and hand-carved woodwork. The city of just under 6,000 people is in the heart of California's Central Coast wine country, but looks like a northern European village.
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