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Copenhagen Landmarks and Culture

Copenhagen Landmarks and Culture

Copenhagen · Denmark

14 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Copenhagen’s historic centre, from the royal setting of Amalienborg and the open space of Kongens Nytorv to the colourful waterfront of Nyhavn. Along the way, you will see churches, a palace, museums, gardens and a former fort, each revealing a different layer of the city. The route is worth taking for its mix of grand architecture, public spaces, art and waterfront views, ending beside the Little Mermaid.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Amalienborg

    Amalienborg

    Four Rococo palaces, one royal square, and a theatre fire that changed Copenhagen

  2. Kongens Nytorv

    Kongens Nytorv

    A royal square that began as mud, rubble, and a very unstable golden king.

  3. Nyhavn

    Nyhavn

    A working harbor turned city square, with sailors, smugglers, writers, and museum ships in its past.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Church of Our Saviour

    Church of Our Saviour

    A church built in stages, crowned by a famously wrong-way spiral and a four-ton Christ.

  6. Christiansborg Palace

    Christiansborg Palace

    A palace built at ruinous expense, destroyed by fire, and partly carried into the one you see today.

  7. Danish Architecture Center

    Danish Architecture Center

    A national centre where architecture, construction and urban development meet.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.