Gilleleje is a coastal town with around 7000 full year
residents, it's an important local fishing harbour, and was indeed
founded by fishermen as early as the 16th century.It has splendid beach for a warm summer day.
- The beach is immensely popular in the summer, and locally famous for
it's white sand - many of the outlying houses are vacation homes, so you
can count on the beach being full on weekends (Jun-Aug) if the weather
is good.
- During the season, there is life guards stationed here - if you
walk around 1 kilometre north west along the beach, you'll reach
Zealands northernmost point, if you walk around the same distance in the
opposite direction, you'll find Nakkehoved Lighthouse, which along with
a sister in Sweden, marks the entrance to the Øresund sound.