Copenhagen - brief description and tourist attractions

Copenhagen - tourist attractions

	Christiania	Christiania, also known as Freetown Christiania (Fristaden Christiania) is a self-proclaimed autonomous neighbourhood of about 850 residents, covering 34 hectares (84 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital Copenhagen. Civic authorities in Copenhagen regard Christiania as a lar...
	Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen	The Church of Our Lady (Vor Frue Kirke) is the cathedral of Copenhagen and the National Cathedral of Denmark. Construction of the original Collegiate Church of St. Mary, began no later than 1187 under Bishop of Roskilde named Absalon located on the highest point near the new town of Havn, later Cop...
	Church of Our Saviour in Copenhagen	Church of Our Saviour (Vor Frelsers Kirke) is a baroque church in Copenhagen, Denmark. Most famous for its corkscrew spire with an external winding staircase that can be climbed to the top, offering extensive views over central Copenhagen. It is also noted for its carillon, which is the largest in n...
	Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen	The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish neoclassicistic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life. The museum is located on the small island of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen next to C...
	Field's	Field's is the biggest shopping centre in Denmark and one of the largest in Scandinavia, owned by Steen & Strøm Danmark A/S. It has more than 140 retailers - 20 cafés and restaurants, 2,500 employees and 3,000 parking spaces. Field's opened on March 9, 2004, with more than 250,000 customers visiting...
	Radisson Blu Royal Hotel	The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel is a hotel in Copenhagen, that was designed for the airline Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) between 1956 and 1960. At its completion the hotel was the largest in Denmark, the first skyscraper in Copenhagen until 1969 and at the same time the tallest building in Denmar...
	Lakes in Copenhagen	The Lakes (Søerne) in Copenhagen, Denmark, are a row of 5 rectangular lakes (the 2 closest to Vesterbro are, combined, approximately the same size as the other three) curving around the western margin of the City Centre, forming one of the oldest and most distinctive features of the city's topograph...
	Carlsberg district	Carlsberg is an area straddling the border of Valby and Vesterbro districts in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the former industrial site of the Carlsberg Breweries, which decommissioned their Valby brewery at the end of 2008, concentrating their production of beer in Denmark at their other Danis...
	Sluseholmen Canal District	Sluseholmen Canal District (Sluseholmen Kanalby) is a residential development, located on Sluseholmen peninsula in the South Harbour area of Copenhagen, Denmark. The development comprises 1,350 apartments. The apartments are built on eight artificial islands, separated by dug-out canals. The Sluseh...
	The Little Mermaid	The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue) is a statue of a mermaid in Langelinie, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, the small and unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction. The statue was commissioned in...