where is copenhagen Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/where-is-copenhagen Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:01:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Copenhagen Travel http://travelsfinders.com/copenhagen-travel.html http://travelsfinders.com/copenhagen-travel.html#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 01:41:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=228944 From Town Hall Square the pedestrian precinct known as Stroget, a succession of short streets running into one another, extends E to Kongens Nytorv, lined by shops, boutiques and street cafes. A little way E of Town Hall Square the street opens out to form two squares, Gammel Torv and Nytorv. In Nytorv are old patrician houses dating from about 1800. Farther along Stroget, on the left, is the Church of the Holy Ghost (Hel-ligandskirken), with the Helligandshus, the only medieval building in Copenhagen, originally belonging to a monastery. In Amager Torv (No. 6) is what is believed to be

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/copenhagen-travel.html/feed 0 Traveling in Copenhagen http://travelsfinders.com/traveling-in-copenhagen.html http://travelsfinders.com/traveling-in-copenhagen.html#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:23:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=228950 The oldest parts of the Citadel (Kastel-let), formerly known as Frederikshavn Citadel, date from 1625. When Denmark lost its possessions E of the 0resund (now southern Sweden) in 1658 and Copenhagen thus became a frontiertown, the fortifications of the Citadel were strengthened. The buildings within the Citadel have been preserved, including its two handsome gates. In the large park adjoining are the Freedom Museum, commemorating the Danish Resistance movement against the Nazis (1940-5), the elegant English Church (St Alban’s) and the Gefion Fountain (1908), which shows the goddess Gefion with her oxen ploughing the island of Zealand out ofthe soil

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