Copenhagen, the most European Nordic

Within its relatively small limits, Copenhagen distilled several seemingly contradictory personalities: as city marina subjected to the elements, toy soldier city and, more recently, elegant design center. All coexist in the modest Danish capital, where it seems that everybody knows.

Occasionally, Copenhagen looks like a salty version? Amsterdam, but even offers rides through channels with a multitude of needles and canopy roofs of bronze, the port life of this city is much more important: huge cruise line to anchor shot Nyhavn, the bustling docks, where they sell old figureheads. Herring, presented in various ways, is available, although many locals take it only at Christmas.

The sentimental side emerges every night in Copenhagen Tivoli Gardens, creating a character in the nineteenth century Danish society that was inspired by the gardens of London and Paris. At night, hundreds of soft lighting create a fairyland of light, while children of soldier uniforms represent a change of guard. At the end of the day, this is the land of Lego and Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid's Tale, one of the best known urban icons in the world is a small figure, nostalgic for some, disappointing to be negligible just a few meters from the shore in the harbor. Over the years, his body has been decapitated, dismembered and cut.

This cheesy vision of "wonderful Copenhagen? may cause the designers of the city of postmodern irony. The silversmith Georg Jensen and Arne Jacobsen the versatile creator, who supervised the design of the SAS hotel, from the front to the cups of coffee, opened the way for a group of designers known for combining functionality with beauty cold. Copenhagen has a rich legacy in art. Carsberg beer family was a great collector: the Ny Carsberg is full of statues Glypotek Etruscan and Roman pieces. South of the city, Arken gallery of contemporary art makes its way across the swamps to the north, the view from the museum maritime Lousiana is as seductive as its modern art. Peter Hoeg and Lars von Trier, filmmakers, pose challenges to existing rules, the same attitude that led to American jazz musicians (and especially saxophonist Dexter Gordon) at the Montmartre Club in the city in the decades of 1950 and 1960.

After the opening of a huge bridge-tunnel in July 2000 between Copenhagen and Malmö (Sweden), has created a combined metropolis called Oresund, the largest city on the Baltic and Northern Europe. However, one suspects that the typical districts of Copenhagen (Kongens Nytorv The elegant, bustling Vesterbro, alternative and somewhat free city of Christiania left) survive, and that the city will continue to have an environment menu as extensive as the options of smørrebrød offered at the famous restaurant Ida Davidsen.

"Other cities erected statues of generals and potentates. In Copenhagen you get a siren. I think it's great?

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