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The first festival, in 2000, focused on the golden age of Danish painting and the extraordinary lyrical landscapes of Eckersberg, Kobke and Lundbye. It is about 10 minutes from the entertainment and shopping area of Silom Road and the BTS Saladang station.The USPIt’s a spa hotel with open-air swimming pools and dining areas of the kind you would never expect to find in the middle of the urban hell that downtown Bangkok sometimes feels like.The comfort factorApart from the glass-fronted eating area overlooking an (artificial) craggy rock-face with waterfalls and a banyan tree, the lobby areas are pleasingly low-key. Where is it?

Where is it?
On the South Sathon Road, in the middle of Bangkok’s business and diplomatic district. But even with the Glyptotek mostly out of action until 2006, Copenhagen is well worth a visit by anyone interested in the visual arts – with first-class museums and galleries.
This weekend the city’s biennial, month-long festival devoted to Danish art, Golden Days, opens.

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