Cirkus Arena is a Danish circus that was founded in 1955. Today it is the largest circus in Scandinavia and within the nordic countries . Cirkus Arena's tent is 45 meters in diameter and can accommodate 1,750 spectators. They have several other tents that are rented out. The tour runs from March to September, where the circus visits more than 100 Danish town's and cities. Since 1976 Circus Arena has been led by Benny Berdino-Olsen as director.
24-455: The Circus Arena has winter quarter in Slagelse . The winter quarters is built as a Circus Land with access for visitors during the winter holidays, summer holidays and autumn holidays, which offers a wide range of activities, rides and small performances. Circus Arena was founded in 1955 by the significant market entertainer Victor Arne Olsen (later known as Arne Berdino). The circus started out as
48-619: A certain transitional arrangement for the four circus elephants in Denmark at the time (three in Circus Arena and one in Circus Trapez). However the law did not reach adoption before the 2019 Danish general election which meant that it was still allowed to show elephants, sea lions and zebras if the conditions of the decree on holding and displaying animals in the circus were fulfilled. Already in 2018 Knuthenborg Safaripark had offered to receive
72-433: A family business under the name Provincial Revue which performed at local markets. The name Berdino was constructed by Victor Arne Olsen by a mixture of the name of a well-known escape artist Bernadi and a monkey named Dino. Two years later he renamed the venture to Circus Arena. In 1958 the preview show changed from being an attraction at markets on weekends to actual standalone circus performances and after 1959 Circus Arena
96-551: A health check. To perform a health examination of an elephant it is necessary to semi-sedate it which involves a risk that something could go wrong and the animal dies. Therefore, efforts should be made to sedate the animals as few times as possible. In order to maintain the offer to receive the elephants in Knuthenborg Safari Park and to get the indispensable guarantee that the elephants were tuberculosis-free they could not be moved from their land and barn. The postponement of
120-428: Is also the square of 1000 and also the cube of 100 . Even though it is often stressed that counting to precisely a million would be an exceedingly tedious task due to the time and concentration required, there are many ways to bring the number "down to size" in approximate quantities, ignoring irregularities or packing effects. In Indian English and Pakistani English , it is also expressed as 10 lakh . Lakh
144-546: Is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001. The word is derived from the early Italian millione ( milione in modern Italian), from mille , "thousand", plus the augmentative suffix -one . It is commonly abbreviated: In scientific notation , it is written as 1 × 10 or 10 . Physical quantities can also be expressed using the SI prefix mega (M), when dealing with SI units; for example, 1 megawatt (1 MW) equals 1,000,000 watts . The meaning of
168-618: The Tølløse Line connects Slagelse with Tølløse on the Northwest Line . Slagelse railway station is the principal railway station of the town, and offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen , Funen and Jutland , regional train services to Copenhagen and Odense operated by the national railway company DSB and local train services to Tølløse operated by the regional railway company Lokaltog . Million 1,000,000 ( one million ), or one thousand thousand,
192-496: The clown Larno (Georg Larsen) who was considered by the Berdinos to be part of the family and because of this the performance was marketed as "The cozy family circus". In the following years more artists joined in and the small business expanded from being Denmark's smallest circus into a neat medium-sized business with a four-masted circus tent. His son Benny Berdino took over Circus Arena in 1976 after his father's sudden death and over
216-559: The 1000s. Around this time, coins were minted in Slagelse. Antvorskov was built in the 1100s by Valdemar I , who had recently acquired Zealand. He built the monastery in an attempt to gain control and favor with the locals. The monastery was used by the Knights Hospitaller . Slagelse was granted the status of a market town in 1288 by Eric V . This gave the town a series of privileges, though eventually put it in competition with
240-481: The authorities. In January 2014 the prosecutor in the case demanded that Cirkus Arena's manager Jackie Berdino-Olsen should be held responsible for the episode. On April 30, 2015 the court dismissed all charges against Jackie Berdino-Olsen in the case of the tent collapse at Kalundborg. In February 2018 the former Minister for the Environment and Food Jakob Ellemann-Jensen introduced a bill banning "wild animals in
264-403: The best bid then was 250,000 Deutsche Marks for each elephant corresponding to approximately 950,000 Danish krones in 1995 (in 2018 that would correspond to approximately 1.5 million Danish krones ). Slagelse Slagelse ( Danish pronunciation: [ˈslɛːjl̩sə] ) is a town on Zealand , Denmark . The town is the seat of Slagelse Municipality , and is the biggest town of
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#1733084591753288-415: The bill against "wild animals in the circuses in Denmark" caused the circus elephants to stay in their barn for months without clarifying their future which caused them to be distracted and according to a veterinarian "close to being exposed to mental animal abuse". A further complication to this case is the issue of financial compensation to the circuses for their elephants. Benny Berdino had calculated that
312-608: The circuses in Denmark". The then government entered into an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Danish People's Party on March 23, 2018 to obtain the necessary majority in the Danish Parliament ( Folketinget ) for the proposal to banned wild animals in the circus. The ban included elephants , sea lions and zebras as well as all other wild animals already banned by Danish law. The conciliation parties arranged for
336-526: The costs of Circus Arena including investment in the required housing conditions amounted to almost 40 million Danish krones . He believed that 20 million was a fair compensation for the elephants and the remaining investment in housing conditions made in accordance with the rules adopted by the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) in June 2009 based on a report from 2008 prepared by the Ministry of Justices working group on
360-745: The following decades he expanded the business into the largest circus in Scandinavia and within the nordic countries with several traveling businesses. In 2008 Benny Berdino received the Knight Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog . In 2016 he also received the Danish Circus Award. In June 2013 one of Cirkus Arena's tents collapsed during a private corporate performance for about 550 guests in Kalundborg . No one
384-613: The four circus elephants. In order to ensure that the elephants did not bring any diseases to the other animals in Knuthenborg Safaripark they were placed in quarantine since in the case of elephants there is a particular risk of tuberculosis . Circus Arena's three elephants Lara and Djungla at 31 years and Jenny at 29 years underwent a health check in December and in January 2019 Circus Trapez's 35-year-old elephant Ramboline also underwent
408-696: The holding of animals in the circuses. The rules and the later order on the holding of animals in the circuses made it legal to allow elephants to perform but made a number of demands. However the former government had only set aside 7 million Danish krones in the Finance Act for compensation or 1.75 million Danish krones for each elephant considering that was the maximum that the Danish state could pay without violating European Unions rules on state aid. The web portal Cirkus in Denmark mentioned in their news report that when Cirkus Benneweis sold its three elephants in 1995
432-478: The municipality. It is located 15 km east of Korsør , 16 km north-east of Skælskør , 33 km south-east of Kalundborg and 14 km west of Sorø . Slagelse has been inhabited since at least the Viking Age, where it was a Pagan site. Trelleborg , a ring castle , was built near the current location of Slagelse in 980, which made the location strategically important. A church was built at Slagelse's current location in
456-686: The neighboring market towns of Korsør and Skælskør. In the 1780s a road from Copenhagen to Korsør was built, and this road ran through Slagelse. Explore the Viking era up close at the Trelleborg Viking fortress, located near Slagelse in West Zealand County . Built around 980 by King Harald Bluetooth , Trelleborg is a remarkable example of a ring fortress from the Viking Age . The impressive remains of this ancient royal stronghold are still visible in
480-421: The picturesque Tude ådal landscape. Slagelse Park (Danish: Slagelse Lystanlæg ) is a park located centrally in Slagelse. It is a green recreational area, with lakes, playgrounds and a maze. The Antvorskov Monastery Ruins are located in southern Slagelse. They are the ruins of Antvorskov Monastery, a monastery built in 1164 by Valdemar I . It was the first Knights Hospitaller monastery in Denmark, and
504-478: The word "million" is common to the short scale and long scale numbering systems, unlike the larger numbers, which have different names in the two systems. The million is sometimes used in the English language as a metaphor for a very large number, as in "Not in a million years" and "You're one in a million", or a hyperbole , as in "I've walked a million miles" and "You've asked a million-dollar question". 1,000,000
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#1733084591753528-519: Was completely freed from the market craze. The Circus Arena started with a small so-called "hangar tent" with seats for around 100 guests. It was replaced after a few years with a slightly larger two-masted circus tent. In the first years the circus troupe consisted solely of the Berdino family who in addition to Arne Berdino consisted of the daughter Jytte and the son Benny as performers as well as Mrs. Lydia. The first circus troupe in Circus Arena also included
552-538: Was seriously injured but nine were injured two of whom were sent to observation at the hospital with a concussion and hip fracture respectively. The tent collapsed under heavy winds, but a report from the Danish Working Environment Service in August of the same year concluded that the actual setting up of the tent was the cause of the collapse and not the weather and the circus was given an injunction by
576-451: Was used as monastery until 1536 when the crown took over ownership and turned into a castle. Frederik II used the castle between 1580 and 1584. After that it was used by fief lords until 1717, when it became a ryttergods - a location for the Danish cavalry. It was sold in 1774 and most of the castle was torn down in 1816. Slagelse is located on the main line Copenhagen–Fredericia railway from Copenhagen to Funen and Jutland , and
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