Probably as a backpacker you would know about popular cities like London, Paris or Tokyo, but you may not know much about the capital city of Denmark, Copenhagen. We can call it as the most underrated travel city in the world, because the place holds mind blowing architectural sites, museums, buildings, and traditional tourist sights.
Visitors may wonder why we should visit Copenhagen City. There are multiple reasons for you to take a direction to this city. Home to many mind blowing attractions ranging from ancient architecture and statues to modern elegant gardens and restaurants, Copenhagen offers something for everyone.
Despite that, there are multiple things ready to welcome visitors around the world to enjoy city beauties. In this article we are going to explain the top 10 things to do in Copenhagen city irrespective of what sort of backpacker you are.
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Things to do in Copenhagen
1. Explore the Beauty of Nyhavn
Visitors are fortunate to enjoy city’s 17th century old merchant houses, buildings, historic ships and waterfront in Nyhavn. Place witnessing the more brightly colored houses, cafes, shops, Christmas delicacies and restaurants making it one of the must visit destinations in Copenhagen. Initially Nyhavn was built as a commercial port, but later on transferred from the shipyard to a travel spot in the city. Never miss to visit “Hose No.20″, which belongs to the famous Danish author Mr. Hans Christian Anderson, a person who lived in 1835 while he published his first volume of “fairy tales”.
2. Discover the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Such a unique museum in Copenhagen city renowned as a Sculpture park in the city welcomes visitors from its impeccable design and vast collections of modern art. Museum boasts spectacular shows of the ocean views, architectural exhibitions of living structures, and the painting collection of Alexej Jawlensky. Since 1945, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has been home to more than 4,000 collections of art including pieces by Picasso and Giacometti. Visitors are eligible to enjoy classic Danish designs, a wide array of books and exhibition posters. Museum opens Tuesday to Sunday (11.00 am to 22.00 pm) except Monday.
3. Walk Amidst of the Tivoli Gardens
Most incredible amusement park in Copenhagen (5th most visited park in Europe), Tivoli gardens offers Tivoli’s seasonal decorations, floral displays, fountains, carousels, lanterns and old fashioned carnival games. Located in the heart of the Copenhagen city, where visitors are blessed to experience more enchanting and tranquillity while they take leisurely stroll amidst these gardens. Constructed in 1843, Tivoli gardens boasts 30 different restaurants, live performances and stunning light displays. Majority of the park’s activities, sports and events are inspired by Walt Disney, Disneyland and Europa Park.
4. Take a Look at the Little Mermaid Statue
The Little Mermaid Statue is a bronze sculpture that was gifted by the Danish Brewe Carl Jacobsen to the City of Copenhagen. Made of bronze and granite in 1913, which sits on the harbour rock. Interestingly, the statue was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s famous “Fairy Tale”. People believed that every morning she was swim to the bottom of the sea and perched on her rock in the water. Today the statue stands as the symbol of “Love” in Copenhagen city in order offering lovely background surroundings, long line offshores and most photographic destinations.
5. Visit Statens Museum for Kunst
Denmark is a country where visitors will spot most ancient statues, museums and buildings dating back to the 10 to 17th century. Under that, Copenhagen’s Statens Museum for Kunst is one. Home to an immense collection of Danish and European art works dating from the 1300s to modern contemporary art. SMK houses is the symbol of the Royal Collections of Graphic Art which filled over the 2, 40,000 works including paintings, drawings, statues and etchings. Some of the well-known artworks are Munch, Danh Vo and Elmgreen and Dragset, Rubens, Derain and Vilhelm Hammershøis. Make sure that each of these collections are open to the general public with the prescribed entry fees.
6. Enjoy the Architectural Beauty of Rosenborg Castle
Rosenborg Castle is Copenhagen’s oldest royal park, built as a summer residence for Christian IV. Built in the 1606 to 1634, just outside of the ramparts of Copenhagen home to many precious ancient things. In Rosenborg Castle visitors are blessed to watch Danish crown jewels, several lavish rooms and priceless wine collection. Great Hall with the coronation thrones, three life size silver lions, King’s coronation throne and Crown of the Danish Kings are exhibited.
7. Take a Glimpse of Contemporary Art Collections at Arken Museum
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art is a great building when it comes to serving Danish, Nordic and International art exhibitions. Located in the artificial landscape Køge Bay beach, witnessing one of Scandinavia’s finest collections of contemporary art. Home to more than 400 sorts of works, especially after 1990’s including Europe and British artist Damien Hirst collections. Enjoy Antony Gormley garden, David Shrigley’s scornful sketches and Anish Kapoor’s sensory back holes are must explore things.
8. Stroll at Torvehallerne Market
The Torvehallerne Market is full of flower shops, vegetable stands, food carts, seating and cafes and restaurants. Market located next to the Nørreport St, where people home cooks and professional chefs like local produce. Here small shops sell kitchen and baking tools, seafood’s, UNIKA cheese and some vegan cream stuff. Moreover, visitors can taste Spanish taps, Jianbing crepes and open sandwiches and porridges through the markets, restaurants and food stalls. During your Torvehallerne Market journey never miss a stop at any one market cafe to take the region’s best tea or chocolates.
9.Read at Royal Danish Library
Library built in 1648 by the renowned architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Royal Danish Library often known as “The Black Diamond”, due to its black granite cladding and series of large scale cultural buildings along with Copenhagen’s first waterfront. Library contains most of the books belonging to the Danish languages which were printed during 1482. However, visitors are fortunate to see cafes, bookshops, exhibition rooms, restaurants, scientific and literary institutions, reading rooms and roof terraces and places for theatrical performances inside the library. Make sure that not every part of the Royal Library is eligible to enter to the public, its central hall is accessible to the public and some part of the reading rooms too.
10. Eat and Drink at Noma
Ranked one of the most coveted restaurant in the World, Noma considered as the Copenhagen’s most famous restaurant to visit. Catering New Nordic Cuisine options with three different menu options at different times in a year. From January to June, the hotel serves sea foods and during summer they offer vegetable cuisines and in winter it caters to local made foods. Travelers can expect vegetarian celeriac shawarma, a duck dish of leg, sweet crab meat, fried cod collar with creme fraiche and caviar and head Mette Søberg. From 2010 to 2016 Noma was voted the one of the World’s Best Restaurants.
Final Thought
Since it is a historical and cultural oriented city, obviously palaces and castles are common things here. Christiansborg Palace, Amalienborg Palace and Kronborg Castle are popular to visit and explore its inside and outside beauties. So, never miss to explore castles and palaces of the Copenhagen city.
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