Kastellet and Langelinie Promenade

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…

St. Alban's Church is distinguished by its exterior of knapped flint and limestone, a material choice rarely seen in Copenhagen that gives the building the appearance of a traditional English parish church. It sits in a quiet parkland…

The Gefion Fountain is a massive bronze sculpture of a Norse goddess driving four oxen through churning water, standing prominently on the Copenhagen harbour front near the Kastellet fortress. It is the largest monument in the city, rising…

The Ivar Huitfeldt Memorial is a nineteen-meter-tall marble column topped by a bronze statue of the Roman goddess Victoria. Located on the Langelinie waterfront, this monument honors Admiral Ivar Huitfeldt and the four hundred and…

Langelinie Pavillonen stands as a sleek, modernist glass structure defined by its expansive windows and steel support columns along the Copenhagen waterfront. This building is the third pavilion to occupy this site, which was originally…

A delicate bronze figure sits perched on a granite rock at the water’s edge, gazing wistfully out toward the harbor. Unveiled on August twenty-third, nineteen thirteen, this is the Little Mermaid, an interpretation of the eighteen…

Dahlerups Pakhus is a striking, historic structure on the Langelinie pier in Copenhagen, easily identified by its traditional warehouse appearance preserved from the end of the nineteenth century. Designed by the architect Vilhelm Dahlerup…