Gentofte sits between Copenhagen and the North Zealand coastline, making it an easy staging post for further exploration. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk — widely considered the finest modern art museum in Scandinavia — is 30 minutes north by S-tog. Helsingør (Elsinore), with Kronborg Castle and a medieval town centre, is an hour away on the same line. Closer to home, the royal grounds at Fredensborg Palace are accessible from Hillerød. For beaches, Hornbæk on the north coast is about an hour by train through Hillerød and offers a long stretch of white sand backed by dunes.