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Copenhagen is a dual-faceted city. There's the fairy-tale toy town of the Tivoli Gardens and the candy-colored 18th-century town houses lining the Nyhavn inlet (Hans Christian Andersen lived in several). There's also the trend-identifying research lab: multiethnic Nørrebro and fast-living Vesterbro neighborhoods; architectural showpieces, from Henning Larsen's Opera House to the Royal Library's Black Diamond extension. For a taste of both Copenhagens, tour the Free State of Christiania. Since radical hippie squatters took over a number of empty army barracks in 1971, this arts-happy enclave has sprouted several serious businesses, including a bakery, bike shop, and communal bathhouse, but the bong smoke–perfumed air still evokes the innocence of a hangout run by kids who don't want to grow up. Hans Christian Andersen would have understood completely.
This waterfront extension to the Royal Library opened in 1999 and stretches from the original 19th-century structure to the harbor's dockside. The name gives...more
Opened in 2005, Denmark's first purpose-built opera house, a striated, bulgy glass module with a "floating" slab of a roof, asserts its presence on the harbor....more
Designed by Daniel Libeskind, one of Copenhagen's newest museums is fittingly located in the former Royal Boat House—it was built by Christian IV, the...more
After its renovation, completed in 2006, Denmark's most extensive museum of art now displays a new approach. While some works in its massive...more
As part of Copenhagen's harborfront revitalization, the first city-center bath opened in 2002 opposite the Marriott Hotel in the Islands Brygge area (Kalvebod...more
Laid out like a stately country manor when it was first completed in 1918 in a Copenhagen suburb, this modern-art museum recently added Zaha Hadid's spatial,...more
Christian IV's 17th-century summer palace sprouts like a Renaissance mirage in the center of the city, its red-brick turrets and towers rising above an oasis...more
Only a city as whimsical as Copenhagen would bill an amusement park as its main attraction—but of course this isn't just any amusement park. Forget bumper...more
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