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Halloween celebrated in Denmark's Tivoli amusement park

Xinhua, October 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Denmark's Tivoli Gardens amusement park, the world's second oldest park of its kind in the center of Copenhagen, is celebrating the Halloween with a setup of pumpkin lights, haunted houses, monster figures and of course, stalls that offer Danish handicrafts, gifts and children's toys.

Tivoli opened its gates for the Halloween season for three weeks from Oct. 14 to Nov. 6, after a short break that ended the summer season.

Tivoli took inspiration from the American tradition and added some Danish spice to the celebration, interpreting the traditions in combination with the old Nordic autumn festivals.

In just a few years, Halloween in Tivoli has become one of the most popular autumn events in Denmark. Now in its 11th year, the country's biggest Halloween celebration features a record 20,000 pumpkins, together with 150 Monsters.

Actually, the Tivoli amusement park helped develop the celebration tradition of Halloween in Denmark. Now, almost all Danish child care centers and schools celebrate Halloween, and convenience stores all over the country sell pumpkins, masks and other paraphernalia for Halloween.

Although Halloween events are held in countless locations around the country, with the one at Tivoli in Copenhagen being so far the biggest and most notable.

In Tivoli this year, visitors have an opportunity to experience something new during their visits. A new augmented reality zombie game for mobile phone users are launched, lending an additional, digital animated dimension to reality. Visitors can use the phones to capture zombies that have broken loose in the gardens of Tivoli.

Meanwhile, the autumn season in Tivoli is full of gastronomic delights such as game, berries and mushrooms -- not to mention pumpkins.

Tivoli is Copenhagen's biggest dining venue, housing over 35 food outlets and restaurants with the capacity to feed more than 10,000 people in total. Some restaurants are creating special autumn menus for Halloween too.

Around the gardens, visitors can explore the special Halloween stalls, which offer Danish handicrafts, gifts and children's toys, or snacks such as handmade toffees from island Bornholm, French delicacies, and much more.

Commercially, the celebration in Tivoli turned out to be a huge success. There were 250,000 visitors during the first Halloween celebration a decade ago. Last year, 541,000 people were registered to visit the park during the Halloween season.

Opened as early as in 1843, Tivoli is one of Denmark's greatest tourist attractions, registering around 4.7 million visitors each year. Endit