Avernakø garlanded with beech branches and spring flowers every Saturday in Pentecost. On your right, you pass several small ponds. If you come along in the spring, you may be lucky to hear the croaking of the rare fire-bellied toad. Skalle road leads to the village of Munke with the beautiful monks farm, which is reflected in the village pond. Turn right onto the main road. About one kilometre off the main road you reach the Turnpike. Until 1937 Avernakø was two islands that were ‘linked’ by an approximately 700 m long causeway between Avernak and Korshavn. During the economic crisis of the 1930s, as part of maintaining employment, money was granted for the construction of this embankment between the two
Avernakø is located six kilometres from Faaborg and consists of two islands – Avernak and Korshavn – which were connected with a causeway called The Turnpike in 1937. The island is eight km long and has a coastal circumference of nineteen kilometres. You arrive at Avernakø at the west end of the island where there is a harbour café, which is a good place in summer to wait for the ferry or to take some refreshment. From the ferry dock there is only one road and it leads to Avernak village. Turn right at the Skalle road. Here stands one of
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Avernakø’s maypoles. The maypole has gradually become Avernakø’s landmark. The maypole is a symbol of fertility from pagan times - a prayer to the gods to have a good harvest in the field. Today it functions as the island’s official flagpole. When exactly it arrived Avernakø is lost in the past, but the traditions are continued in Avernak village and in Munke, where the maypole is
islands. Throughout the years many people have drowned when they have tried to cross the Turnpike in stormy weather.’Through common enterprise The Turnpike became a roadway’ are the words that
