History of Copenhagen

Kastellet is a pentagonal star fort defined by its five pointed bastions and a surrounding moat. King Christian the Fourth initiated construction here in sixteen twenty-six to guard the harbor entrance, and King Frederik the Third later…

Rosenborg Castle rises with copper spires and sharply pitched gables above the surrounding King’s Garden. Built by King Christian the Fourth between sixteen oh six and sixteen twenty-four, this Dutch Renaissance structure served as his…

The Round Tower is a thirty-five-meter-tall masonry cylinder characterized by a continuous, hollow core around which a wide, helical ramp winds seven and a half times toward the summit. Commissioned by King Christian the Fourth and…

Sankt Petri Kirke is identifiable by the tall, copper-clad spire that rises above its mid-fifteenth-century nave and choir. As the oldest surviving church in central Copenhagen, the building has endured centuries of transformation.…

Copenhagen City Hall is defined by its slender, one-hundred-five-point-six-meter-tall clock tower that rises above the surrounding low-rise city skyline. Constructed between eighteen ninety-two and nineteen oh five, the building is a…

Beneath the seat of Danish power at Christiansborg Palace lie the subterranean remnants of two earlier fortresses. These ruins were discovered by accident in nineteen oh seven when construction crews were digging the foundations for the…

The Royal Danish Library is defined by the sharp, angular silhouette of its waterfront extension, known as the Black Diamond. Clad in polished black granite quarried in Zimbabwe and processed in Italy, the building’s dark, reflective…

Freetown Christiania is an intentional community defined by the remnants of the Bådsmandsstræde military barracks and its surrounding seventeenth-century ramparts. You can identify the area by its distinct lack of private car traffic and…