Oldest Amusement Parks In Europe

Even walt disney travelled to europe in the 1950s searching for inspiration for what would become the world famous disneyland his first theme park project in california.

Oldest amusement parks in europe. At over 400 years old bakken or the hill is the oldest amusement park in europe and probably the world. Dyrehavsbakken the deer pasture s hill commonly referred to as bakken the hill is an amusement park in lyngby taarbæk kommune denmark near klampenborg gentofte municipality about 10 km north of central copenhagen. Bakken located in klampenborg north of copenhagen denmark opened in 1583 and is currently the oldest operating amusement park in the world.

Its history began in 1583 with the discovery of a freshwater spring on the grounds of the jægersborg deer park.