This is Solvang, the curious Danish town in California

A curious place that you can visit in your trip along the west coast of the United States, in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, is the Danish village of Solvang.

It is a small town of about 5.000 inhabitants that was founded at the beginning of the XNUMXth century by a community of immigrants from Denmark, who have conferred on Solving all the characteristics of a danish town.

Solving is located in Santa Ynez Valley, the famous wine-growing area that has become a major center of tourist attraction near Santa Barbara.

All the information in detail

1 Curiosities history of Solvang
2 What to see in Solvang in Santa Ynez Valley
3 Map: How to get to Solvang

Curiosities history of Solvang

The origin of Danish emigration to the United States dates back to 1850, and since then numerous danish communities in the states of Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.

In these communities, numerous churches and schools were founded with the influence of Lutheran ideas.

It was in 1906 when a pastor from one of the Iowa Danish Communities He planned to create a new community on the west coast of the United States.

Finally, in 1911, land was purchased in the Santa Ynez Valley and the first buildings of the new city began to be built Danish community of Solvang, precisely next to the Mission Santa Inés, which had been built by the Spanish Jesuits in 1804.

In 1912 the Bethania Evangelical Lutheran Church, following the Gothic design of the medieval churches of the towns of Denmark.

Mission Santa Inés in the Danish town of Solvang near Santa Barbara

But it was after Second World War when residents of Danish origin began to build their houses in the style of Danish half-timbered houses, creating a true Danish village.

What to see in Solvang in Santa Ynez Valley

In the last decades Solving has enhanced his style of danish town managing to become a great tourist attraction which receives more than a million visitors every year.

So when you visit Solving, in addition to contemplating numerous half-timbered housesyou will see typical windmills, statues and a museum dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen, while you can enjoy typical Danish music and food.