6 Hidden Gems in Copenhagen Most People Walk Right Past
6 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Assistens Cemetery
4 Kapelvej, Copenhagen, København N, 2200, Denmark
This is where Copenhagen buries its famous dead and takes its living for a picnic.
Botanical Garden & Palm House
128 Gothersgade, Copenhagen, København K, 1123, Denmark
Copenhagen's Botanical Garden has existed in one form or another since 1600, making it over four centuries old, but it only settled into its current location in 1870 after two previous moves.
Cisternerne
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Beneath a gentle hill in Søndermarken Park lies Denmark's only dripstone cave — except it is not a cave at all.
Grundtvig's Church
14B På Bjerget, Copenhagen, København NV, 2400, Denmark
Five million yellow bricks.
Islands Brygge Harbour Bath
14 Islands Brygge, Amager Vest, København S, 2300, Denmark
The idea that you could swim in Copenhagen's harbour would have been laughable thirty years ago.
Superkilen
Nørrebrogade 210, 2200 København N
Before 2012, Nørrebro was Copenhagen's most troubled neighbourhood — ethnically diverse, economically disadvantaged, and scarred by gang violence and the 2006 riots triggered by controversial newspaper cartoons.
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