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Copenhagen
street opens onto one of the city’s most
historic squares, each section with its own
name. To the left, Nytorv (new Market),
which was created when the city’s old town
hall was reduced to ashes in 1728, and to
the right Gammeltorv (old Market), which
has been a market square for some 800
years. Design buffs may like to know that
the modernist corner building on the square
was designed by arne Jacobsen (see page
48). Facing nytorv is the neoclassical city
magistrate, designed by the very same
architect, C. F. hansen (1756-1845), who
rebuilt the fire-ravaged Church of Our Lady
(Vor Frue Kirke) nearby (see page 27). In the
middle of nytorv you see a granite plinth
marking where the city’s gallows once stood.
The last stretch of Strøget – Frederiksberggade
– takes you to Copenhagen’s City Hall
Square with its romantically eclectic city
hall (1905) designed by Martin nyrop (1849-
1921). Like several of the buildings facing
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the square, not least the palace hotel (1909),
this particularly Danish flavour of the
“national Romance” style draws on fluid
elements of art nouveau. Visit the City hall
and its mechanical wonder – the world
clock by Jens olsen.
museums along The way
– for The whole family
on Strøget and the Copenhagen City
hall Square you’ll find four museums with
a difference: Guinness World of Records
with records in sport, art, music, nature
and science. The Mystic Exploratorie – a
world of strange phenomena. Hans
Christian Andersen’s Wonderful World
– his fairytales with exciting light and
sound effects. and finally Ripley’s Believe
It or not! – you have to see it to believe it.
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