10 Local Spots in Copenhagen Tourists Don't Know About
10 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.
Freetown Christiania
Copenhagen, København K, Denmark
In 1971, a group of squatters broke into an abandoned military barracks on Christianshavn and declared it a free town.
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.
Kødbyen
Flæsketorvet, Copenhagen, København V, 1711, Denmark
Copenhagen's Meatpacking District is one of the few gentrification stories in Europe where the butchers are still around.
Nyhavn
Nyhavn, 1051 København K
Every postcard of Copenhagen features this canal, and for good reason — but Nyhavn's candy-coloured facade hides a past that would make a sailor blush.
Paper Island (Papirøen)
Trangravsvej 14, 1436 København K
Paper Island — Papirøen in Danish — earned its name from decades as the storage site for Copenhagen's major newspapers.
Reffen Street Food
Refshalevej 167A, 1432 København K
For over a century, Refshaleøen was home to the Burmeister & Wain shipyard, one of the largest in Europe, churning out everything from cargo vessels to diesel engines.
Strøget
Strøget, 1100 København K
On November 17, 1962, Copenhagen did something that was considered borderline insane at the time: it closed one of its busiest city-centre streets to cars.
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.
Torvehallerne
Frederiksborggade 21, 1360 København K
For decades, the site next to Nørreport Station was just an ugly vacant lot — a gap in the urban fabric where market halls had stood until their demolition in 1958.
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