Near the sights
The sights set your route. These guides set the coffee stops along it.
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The painted townhouse canal that most people picture when they picture Copenhagen.
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A small bronze statue on a rock, world-famous and best seen at an hour when you can actually see it.
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A nineteenth-century pleasure garden in the middle of the city: rides, gardens, concerts and thousands of lights.
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The royal residence: four identical rococo palaces facing each other across an octagonal square.
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Frederik's Church, the great green dome that closes the view from Amalienborg.
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A glass-fronted opera house on the harbour, facing the old city across the water.
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Rådhuspladsen: the city's main public square, the point where most walks begin.
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One of Europe's longest pedestrian streets, running the width of the old city.
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A Renaissance summer castle, the crown jewels in its cellar, and the city's favourite park around it.
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Parliament, supreme court and royal reception rooms in one building, on the island where the city began.
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A seventeenth-century observatory reached by a spiral ramp instead of stairs.
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Two glass market halls with sixty-odd stalls: fish, cheese, bread, coffee and lunch counters.
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A self-governing community on a former military site, half counterculture, half woodland.
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Ten hectares of planting around a Victorian glasshouse, free to walk through.
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A star-shaped seventeenth-century fortress, still military, still perfectly intact.
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A former shipyard turned street-food market, sauna spot and warehouse culture district.
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A working cemetery that doubles as Nørrebro's park, with Hans Christian Andersen among the graves.
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A romantic landscape park with canals, a hilltop palace and elephants visible over the wall.
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Open-air swimming in the middle of the harbour, in water clean enough to jump into.
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Antiquities and French painting around a domed winter garden of palms.
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Ten thousand years of Danish history, from bog finds to Viking ships to the twentieth century.
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Danish design history in an eighteenth-century hospital: chairs, ceramics, posters and porcelain.
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