SO MANY EUROPEAN backwaters call themselves “fairy-tale pretty” that the boast can start to seem hollow. But the Danish island of Funen makes good on the hype. The landscape alone suggests a romance.

A hands-on sailing voyage by tall ship around the South Funen Archipelago offers an authentic glimpse of Danish maritime culture old and new, with colourful port towns, lunches of pickled herring ...

Funen could be the most romantic destination for a mini break you've never heard of. At just under 1,200sq miles, it is Denmark's third-largest island. But it has long been eclipsed by Copenhagen.

At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding stones and grains from early cereals. However, new research reveals that the ...