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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

A folk high school in a baroque mansion facing Christiansborg is an unlikely combination, and Johan Borups Hojskole has been exactly that since 1926. Founded in 1891 by Johan Borup - a theologian shaped by his uncle Ernst Trier's Vallekilde hojskole and by the radical currents of the modern breakthrough - the school set out to help the big city's "ladies and gentlemen find their way in the modern world", and for over a century it was Copenhagen's only city folk high school. The building at Fred...