Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Along the streets of Copenhagen. Denmark


What a pleasant walk down town Copenhagen. The capital of Denmark is rich in beauty churches and ancient buildings. You also can look at the beauty of the city of canals or roads in the red light district, without feeling embarrassed. Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark at the beginning of the 15th century, an important town in the area of ​​Scandinavia after the reign of King Christian IV in the 17th century. Last year the metropolitan city full of ancient buildings were selected as the fourth city of the future top 50 European city after London, Paris, and Berlin.

The city was considered comfortable and friendly environment. The water in the canal port city was clean, so routinely used as a swimming race in the summer.

Most city residents are also not hesitate to use the bicycle as a means of transportation. Across town in Denmark always provided a special lane for cycling, so comfortable and safe for riders of two-wheeled transport it.

Pedestrian paradise

Coming to Copenhagen in the winter did not reduce the beauty of this old city. When the air temperature was about 0 to 4 degrees Celsius.

"It's just that, in winter we could not go to Tivoli or Lego Land," said Gitte Krogh-Madsen, a friend of Danish citizens. Tivoli and Lego Land is a theme park like Disneyland pride of Danish citizens.

Similar to other major cities in the world, it's rather difficult to find the car park in Copenhagen. This city is very pleasant to disusuri by foot. When you include regular walking about 8 miles a day, this city is best to be enjoyed while on foot.

Virtually Copenhagen is a paradise for hikers, because this is the first city in Europe by banning cars in some way. Stroit is car-free streets the longest in Europe with the distance 1.8 km.

Strolling down the area Ny Havn in English or New Harbour's very exciting. There are canals were excavated about 300 years ago in this region, so that ships could be docked farther to the city.

In these days we can tour the streets along the canals and harbor of Copenhagen. "Actually this is where the sailors amuse themselves, so often referred to as the red light district. Even so, tourists do not need to shrink down the street Ny Havn," says Dina, a tour guide in Copenhagen canal tour.

One of the buildings in this area is a favorite residence of the famous children's story writer, Hans Christian Andersen.

Little Mermaid Statue

Through Ny Havn, we can walk up to the Copenhagen theater is new and located on the waterfront. In contrast to the old theater building, this building looks modern architectural design with a full glass. The building was completed in 2008.

"Staging the first in this building is Hamlet by William Shakespeare," says Dina. The story of Shakespeare's Hamlet is a prince of Denmark.

Travel forwarded to the Amalienborg royal palace, the official residence of Queen Margaret II. The situation seemed deserted, only seen a few people's palace guards in traditional dress, such as the British queen's palace guards.

Continuing on foot, we can get to the statue den Lille Havfrue or better known as the Little Mermaid which is reflective on the seashore. Life-size statue is an icon of Copenhagen. In the original version of Andersen's tale, the mermaid is really unfortunate because it does not work edited by the prince idol.

The statue was donated in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, the Danish beer company. Pematungnya is Edward Eriksen, who used his wife Eline Eriksen, as his model.

source : liburan.info

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