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On Sundays Arhus resembles a ghost town, with most locals spending the day in the parks or beaches on the city's outskirts. The closest beaches are just north of the city at Riis Skov, easily reached with buses #6, #12 or #16. Otherwise, the Marselisborg Skov is the city's largest park, home to the Marselisborg Slot, summer residence of the Danish royals, the landscaped grounds of which can be visited when the monarch isn't staying. Further east paths run down to rarely crowded pebbly beaches, and, near the junction of Orneredevej and Thorsmøllevej, to the Dyrehaven or Deer Park. A few kilometres further on, the Moesgard Prehistoric Museum (April-Sept daily 10am-5pm; rest of the year Tues-Sun 10am-4pm; www.moesmus.dk ; 35kr), reached direct on bus #6, details Danish civilizations from the Stone Age onwards with copious finds and easy-to-follow illustrations. Its most notable exhibit is the "Grauballe Man", a body dated 80 BC discovered to the west of Arhus in a peat bog and thus amazingly well preserved. From the museum, a "prehistoric tramway" runs 3km to the sea, past a scattering of reassembled prehistoric dwellings, monuments and burial places. If you don't have the energy for any more walking, you can take a #19 bus back to the city from here; the stop is a hundred metres to the north.
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