[4] The town has an old market environment and is located by Varde stream/river and is a short distance away from the beaches by the North Sea.

The town was founded near a stream allowing a convenient port for ships near a place, where north and south bound traffic by land had an important ford/crossing, which was later replaced with a bridge.

Vardehus was the administrative center of the district and from this base of power a royal official governed the shire of Varde a sizeable area corresponding to the former Ribe Amt.

In his capacity of being the representative of the king in the shire of Varde, this high level official must have resided in the local royal estate/castle – Vardehus.

During the opening of the new facilities the municipality received a work of art from local artist Hans Tyrrestrup, which it had commissioned, consisting of one poem and three paintings under the title "Sonate for sol," which means "Sonata for the sun."

Varde stretches from Ansager in the east to Blåvands Huk in the west and from Skallingen in the south to Nymindegab/Ølgod in the north.

At the municipality of Varde "Wadden Sea National park,"[7] which in June 2014, together with areas of the Wadden Sea in Germany and the Netherlands, was declared world heritage by UNESCO, meets "Naturpark Vesterhavet,"[8] which stretches across an area of 22.500 hectares between Blåvands Huk and Nymindegab.

The parks along the western shores of Varde offer an array of different types of landscapes[9] e.g. dune landscapes, heath, dune plantations, coastal lakes, and for the wadden sea, vast areas of mud flats, where the guest can experience the exposed seabed.

Just near the barracks of Nymindegab lay the Atlantic Wall,[12] stretching from Nordkapp in Norway to the Pyrenees by the Spanish border.

Among these the Tirpitz-position (in German: Batterie Vogelsnest), which was being built (but never finished) in order to protect the port of Esbjerg.

Following the Second World War it was necessary to demine the westcoast of Jutland, as the Wehrmacht had mined the coast to stop allied forces from attacking.

Otto William Frello (died 2015), local artist with permanent exhibition at Varde Museum.

[17] Laurits Tuxen is known as one of the "Skagensmalerne –painters of Skagen," but already in 1879 visited Nymindegab, where he was one of the founding fathers of the painter colony Nymindegabmalerne.

[18] In the summer months the painters rented rooms at the Nymindegab Inn, where they sketched drawings/drafts for paintings, which were finished when they returned to Copenhagen for the winter.

The Danish classicism dictated that house walls were to be plastered, but this was not done in Varde, as a breakthrough in the mass production of bricks and tiles had been made at the time.

Among the larger businesses in the municipality of Varde we find Nobia, owner of e.g. the kitchen brands HTH and Invita with about 2000 employees in Denmark.

Following the business development project Naturen til bords a community of interests was formed named Sydvestjyske Smagsoplevelser[23] – Taste experiences of South-western Jutland(roughly translated) to carry forward and promote the project after release of the cooking book Naturen til bords.

With a long and broad high quality beach stretching from Skallingen in the south to Nymindegab in the north and with its characteristic look, the coastal area of Varde in the beginning primarily attracted artists, who found inspiration in the landscape and thereby were among the first, together with the bourgeoisie, to initiate the building of cottages for recreational purposes along the coast of Varde.

In Denmark in the 1920s the common worker was awarded 2 weeks of vacation, which put the building of cottages along the coast in motion and made the Tourism industry in Varde what it is today.

A target destination could have been the Henne Mølleå Badehotel (seaside hotel), designed by Poul Henningsen in 1935.