Peberholm island
An artificial island left to nature, now a reserve.
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Yes — although Sweden and Denmark are both in the Schengen area, Sweden reinstated identity controls on this crossing specifically from 2016, and checks are carried out on trains and cars. Carry your passport or a valid European ID card; driving licences and other cards are not usually accepted at the check.
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The Oresund Bridge links Swedish Malmo with Danish Copenhagen across the Oresund strait, running close to eight kilometres in total — the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe. It opened in 2000, ending centuries of separation between the two shores and creating a single economic region that thousands cross daily for work. Its engineering solution is what makes it exceptional: the bridge does not reach the Danish shore directly, because its height would have obstructed flight paths into Copenhagen airport. So it ends at an artificial island called Peberholm, built specifically from excavated spoil, and from there the route dives into a four-kilometre tunnel beneath the sea to the far side — meaning you pass over the water and then under it in a single journey. Peberholm itself has become a well-known environmental story: it was left without human intervention to see what nature would do, and hundreds of plant species and birds colonised it spontaneously, making it a reserve for scientific research. Crossing by train from Malmo Central to Copenhagen takes about thirty-five minutes.
An artificial island left to nature, now a reserve.
35 minutes from Malmo to central Copenhagen.
Oresundsbron, 211 19 Malmo