Christiania Freetown was established in 1971 by  under the ownership of the freethinking individuals who reclaimed the land for public use in 1986. Today the  self governing community has a population of roughly 900 inhabitants, with visitors arriving daily to bear witness and explore within this ongoing social experiment.

Until 2004, one of the main attractions in Christiania was a series of hash stands on the main thoroughfare, aptly named Pusher Street. While hard drugs have always been banned by community law, the hash trade was very much at home in Chritiania, until the Danish government finally cracked down and the community was forced to refocus its business ventures. Today, a series of small businesses including shops, cafes and restaurants lure visitors to contribute to the local economy.

Christianians has  defended themselves through peaceful means and remains autonomous. Cars are banned from use within the community borders, where community members reside in abodes as typical as houses and as non-traditional as tree-houses. Chritiania is certainly an important destination for dreamers, explorers and hippies.

Christiania is located within the parameters of Copenhagen’s city bike network, we recommend you hop on one of those free access bikes and cross the river to check out a truly one-of-a-kind community.

Tycho Brahe Planetarium, is hard to miss. A statement to everything galactic, the Planetarium is where you go if you have an interest in space rocks, interstellar light beams and the planetary rings of Saturn. With one word Tycho Brahe Planetarium is Denmark’s most advanced centre for popularizing astronomy and space research and promoting knowledge on natural science.

All day round they present the spectacular IMAX films – the largest film format in the world and digital 3D films – that show you nature’s magnificence, whether they take you below the surface of the sea, out in space or into the jungle. The films are displayed on 1000 m2 dome-shaped screen which gives you the impression of being part of the on-screen action. Each film starts with a brief description of the actual night sky. Seated in the comfortable flight seats you can look forward to an hour with no time or space limitations.

The current stellar constellations are shown on the screen, which prove to be a good come down, as they also own a star projector that is able to project more than 4000 stars, complete with the different planets of our solar system.

In their permanent exhibition, The Active Universe, you’ll find the answers to some of the mysteries of space. Most of the shows are narrated in Danish. If you would like to hear the English narration, headphones are available e for DKK 20. If you are interested in our planet, in the universe or in the twinkling stars, the exhibition on natural science, astronomy and space travel is a must.

It sounds little weird, however one of the best place for relax in the centre of Copenhagen is cemetery -park Assistens Kirkegard. Initially the ground was intended for the poor to be buried. During the years passing by became a trendy resting place for the wealthy and famous, like physician Niels Bohr and world-renowned writers H.C. Andersen, M. A. Nexo and Soren Kierkegaard.

I would say that the cemetery is a local advantage these days. Locals using it as a picturesque park; in warm weather, expect to see people sunbathing and students studying nestled in between the rare trees and the graves. So bring a carpet, newspaper, boombox, and lay out in the verdant surroundings. Fittingly, the place never gets overcrowded.

If you’re holidat trip is time-limited, you can explore the cemetery as a shortcut to outer Norrebro by strolling through the dazzling mainway Poppel Alle. And don’t be scared if you suddenly find yourself far away from the main entrance—Assistens has several exits.

There are so many incredible photos… it is very difficult to choose…. This is Ilulissat Icefjord which is located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle and is the biggest natural attraction in Greenland. Owing to gigantic icebergs, the glacier flows at a rate of 20-35 m per day, resulting in around 20 billion tones of icebergs. In 2004 was admitted onto UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It has been the object of scientific attention for 250 years and is today at the centre of the huge international focus on global warming thanks to extensive media coverage.

The ice-stream is one of the fastest (19m per day) and most active in the world. Its annual calving of over 35km³ of ice accounts for 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice, more than any other glacier outside Antarctica. The glacier has significantly added to the understanding of ice-cap glaciology, climate change and related geomorphic processes.

All tour operators organize trips to Ilulissat Icefjord, including hiking trips, sailing trips and helicopter flights. Official site – click here

The Faroes are a group of 18 hauntingly beautiful islands, situated between Iceland and Norway. The archipelago covers a total area of 1,399 sq km and has a gentle warmed by the Gulf Stream. The scenery is amazing, rugged mountains up to 880 m high are thickly carpeted with impossibly green grass, incised everywhere by waterfalls, rivers and fjords. Extraordinary skies constantly transform the landscape. Photo by: hlemmur

The islands are Danish territory and the islanders take pride in their independence of spirit and inimitable forms of Viking language, singing and dance. Photo by: Eileen Sandá

The Faroes are still mercifully tourist-free. Many of the inhabitants still live by sheep farming  and fishing, in isolated crofts and old fishing villages of brightly painted houses with turf roofs. The enchanting port of Torshavn, Europe’s smallest capital, is on Streymoy, the largest island. A bridge and tunnel connect Streymoy to nearby Eysturoy and regular ferries ply between all the islands. The westernmost island of Vagar has the best tourist facilities and Sudoroy, two hours to the far south, is perhaps the best beautiful of all. Photo by: Eileen Sandá

It is impossible not to succumb to the eerie enchantment of those captivating islands, where the only sounds are of birds calling, water tricking over rocks, wind lashing across the headlands, and the breakers dashing the cliffs at the outer edges of the world. Photo by: Niquinho

When to go: May to September, unless you’re an exceptionally hardly type. Population: 48,317. How to get there: Regular year-round car ferries from Denmark, Norway, Scotland and the Shetlands. Or fly to Vagar, the only island flat-enough for an airport. Photo by: Niquinho

Once a Viking assembly ground and site of a legendary battle against the ‘Berserkers‘, a terrifying warrior cult, Samso lies 15 km off the east coast of Jutland. It is only 28 km long with a complex, indented coastline linking its two district parts, North Island and South Island. These ancient islands were joined at the end of the Ice Age, when the melting glacier waters washed up deposits that created the landscape around Stavns Fjord – a strikingly beautiful conservation area of more than 1,500 hectares of low-lying heathland, meadows and reefs. The highest point is Ballebjerg in North Island, a region of lovely countryside perfect for biking and walking, while South Island is open farming land with picturesque villages, manor houses and harbours with lovely views over the Baltic. Photo by: Will Francis UK

Samso is an ecological ‘green dream’ island. The entire community there has pulled together to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to be carbon neutral. Electricity is produced by the island’s windmills and an offshore wind farm, which between them are able to generate more than enough energy to supply the inhabitants and offset the fuel used by the island ferry service; any excess is sent to the mainland. The islander heat their water by means of solar panels at community heating plants as well as individual straw-burning central heating system. All the island’s vehicles are run on home grown bio-fuel. Photo by: masshuu

Apart from a few days every July, when visitors pour in for the annual Music Festival, Samso is a remarkably uncrowded, eco-tourist haven in which to unwind, admire the scenery and experience the hospitable tranquility and relaxed pace of Danish island life. Photo by: yavoy1980

When to go: Early May to early September. Population: 4,124 (2006). How to get there: Ferry from Hov, near Aarhus, Jutland to Saelvig, Samso or from Kalundborg, Zealand to Kobly Kaas, Samso. You should know: The island is also famous in Denmark for its new potato and strawberry crops. In June and July, young people come from all over the EU for picking holidays. Nordby is the prettiest village on the island with timbered houses and distinctive church belfry. The harbour is Langor. Photo by: Will Francis UK

Funen is the third largest Danish island, lying between Jutland and Zealand, the island has 1,125 km of varied coast – broad, sandy beaches interspersed with grassland reaching to the sea line and stretches of steep cliff with magnificent views over the Baltic. The low-lying, undulating countryside is dotted with more than a hundred fairytale castles, manor houses, historic churches an windmills. It is one of the loveliest region in Denmark.

The island’s cultural centre is Odense – a city with a thousand years of history, today best known for being the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. Wandering around the ancient town, you can easily conjure yourself into a fairytale. During the summer the city buzzes with lively, round-the-clock street life and a warm friendly atmosphere emanates from the many bars, cafes and music venues round the main square.

The historical coastal towns are well worth seeing. The east coast port of Nyborg, one of the oldest town in Denmark and former capital, has a spectacular medieval castle near the marketplace. Faaborg, on the south coast, is particularly beautiful with its 17th century half-timbered, pastel coloured merchants’ houses. There is also a wonderful art museum and some of the island’s best beaches. Funen is a relaxed rural paradise where the pace of life is slow and nothing seems to have changed for centuries. It is little wonder that it is called the ‘Garden of Denmark’.

Copenhagen is one of the world’s least pretensions, least capital. It’s among the easiest capital to explore, thanks to its manageble size and pedestrian – and bicycle -friendliness. Most of the Copenhagen ancient structures were lost to fires in the 18th century, but its historic center somehow was saved.

Today Copenhagen is intimate rather than monumental and what impresses more are the vernacular buildings that give the multiple quarters variety and distinction. The tiny student apartments have been combined into c0-ops, latterias and boutiques have supplanted the sex shops and street life is unmistakably boho-chic.

Denmark and Sweden decided to build the Oresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö. Before, Denmark had been in the corner of Europe, and Sweden was not physically connected at all. When the bridge made the connection between [mainland] Europe and Sweden in 2000,  made Ørestad, which is near to where the bridge meets the city, a very attractive place for development, whereas before, it was a nature preserve and an area for military exercises.

Copenhagen is a good living city, where you have easy access to work and can send your children to play in the garden. Not a lot of cities have that quality, and that’s why a lot of families want to live in Copenhagen.

A good city needs more than good architecture. It needs a policy for city life. So the new urban areas are being developed in dialogue with those who will use them, and people other than architects and planners. Almost every competition about Copenhagen now has a panel including anthropologists, sociologists, communication and cultural people—–that’s very typical.

Copenhagen, though it’s certainly cosmopolitan, has a villagelike quality. For sure the city is not a spot where you find the most interesting theater, compared [with] London. But if you’re an artist, maybe Berlin will be more fascinating place to experience. But I think the reason to go to Copenhagen, as I said before, is that it’s a good living city. Like Amsterdam, it’s very cozy and relaxed to be in. That’s one of our best quali-ties, and something London, Berlin, or Paris don’t have in the same way.

Today the Copenhagen Harbour is in the middle of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the city. During your stroll in the Copenhagen Harbour you will come across the Harbour Bath, which extends the adjacent park over the water by incorporating the practical needs and demands for accessibility, safety and programmatic flexibility.

The Harbour Bath also offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, piers, boat ramps, cliffs, playgrounds and pontoons. As a terraced landscape, the Harbour Bath completes the transition from land to water, making it possible for the citizens of Copenhagen to go for a swim in the middle of the city.

But if you want to enjoy the whole harbour you may get a better view from the water. Why not go on board one of the yellow harbour buses or on a sightseeing boat through the canals? On land the City Bikes are free of charge and a fine way to get about the city and discover interesting places and things off the beaten track – but only within the city ramparts.

There are several possibilities for eating with water below the hull. Visitors can find a few ideas of where to go, but do also look around the canal areas of Christianshavn and Holmen.

The Elephant House is a currently finishing project at the Copenhagen Zoo for a group of Indian elephants. The Elephant house is covered with lightweight glazed domes that enclosure spaces with a strong visual connection with the sky and changing patterns of daylight.

 

Board public viewing terraces run around the domes externally, while a ramped leads down into an educational space.

 

Barriers between the animals and the visitors are discreet, such as elongated pool of water so that the approaching visitor encounters the elephants as another surprise in the Romantic landscape of the park.

 

The main herd enclosure give the chance elephants in captivity to sleep together as they would in the wild, while the floors are heated to keep them dry...

 

 Other key aspects of the design are the result of research into the elephants natural habitat. The paddocks recreate a section of dry riverbed as found at the edge of the rainforest a favourite haunt of Asian elephants.

Copenhagen is a lively city, up-to-the-minute metropolis brimming with creative energy and youthful optimism.

 

 In Vesterbro, which is a funky electric neighborhood in Copenhagen visitors can find designers shows and pita shops.

 

Time travel does seem possible in the Deer Park, behind the beach. This si Denmark’s most popular green spot. The trees are unusually tall.

 

The Royal Library’s sleek Black Diamond wing built of marble from Zimbabwe.

 

Five years ago dining out in Copenhagen, Denmark was an ordinary experience even thought a little weary. But in the last years there is a sea change in Copenhagen kitchens. Young Danish chefs are scouting out distinctive regional ingredients and serving them up in creative dishes.

An amazing view from Alberto K on the 20th floor of the Radisson SAS Royal Denmark hotel. This restaurant has fused Scandinavian with Italian. The result: some dishes are flashier and more successful than others.

This photograph depicts a creation with king crab at Alberto K, where many of the dishes are subtle and delicate.

The Orestad College is the latest upper secondary school in Copenhagen built in the industrial area of the city. So today in Denmark has a remarkable growth of the 16-19 year group, so the country need more study places. This bring the decision to build this superb college in Orestad City which is the new city center for the entire Ørestad.

Orestad College offers science, social science and human science. The purpose of the college is to prepare the students better for university and to enhance the science aspect. This college has chosen a profile of media, communication and culture, and with wireless internet all over the school and with laptops for all students – hence the knick-name the Virtual College.

The university was constructed without terms for rooms, and left much to the architects’ interpretation. The proposal was therefore not so much a response to a specifically defined task as an element in the necessary development of the idea of a Danish college.

Inside the college there’re four boomerang shaped storey decks rotate in relation to each other like the shutter of a camera. They form the superstructure; the overall framework of the college, and provide space for the college’s four study zones. Each zone is on one level, providing organizational flexibility, with the option of micro adjustment to create different spaces, learning environments and group sizes. The rotation of the story decks projects a part of each deck into the high central hall. This part is the so called X-zone; a spatial expression of the colleges’ ambition to promote interdisciplinary expertise between study zones with physical and visual links.

This lovely design hotel is located downtown Copenhagen, next to the City Hall Square, Norreport Metro and S-train Station. The S-train Station is only five minutes walk from the hotel and it’s a connection to Copenhagen International Airport in just 12 minutes.

Inside the hotel consist 268-rooms, which are with top modern Scandinavian furniture. There’s also excellent fully equipped business centre which operates one large room with 250 seats and 13 further smaller rooms. The converence rooms are perfect for any creative, open and communicative meetings.

The restaurant is very pompose and offer very delicious cuisine (Western, primarly Danish, Asian-food and a healthy cuisine). You can find in Skt Petri Hotel also Bar Rouge. One of the most famous cocktail bars in Copenhagen, offering a very funky atmosphere and disco music, especially during the weekend.

Each room has two-line phones, broadband internet access, air-con, safety box, B&O TV and stereo in selected suites, business centre, daily maid & turndown service, valet parking, concierge service, butler service on request, laundry, 24-hour in-room dining.

Enjoy..!