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Copenhagen
Tourist Information and Travel Guide
ABOVE: A summer parade of Santas on Strøget,
Copenhagen's main shopping street. INSET BELOW: Copenhagen's Danish spelling on
a boat fantail, and a navigation light in the Frihavnen cruise harbor..
 Copenhagen,
Denmark--Scandinavia's largest city--has been called "The Paris of the North."
That may be an exaggeration, but it's an understandable display of hyperbole in a part of Europe where joie
de vivre is occasionally smothered under a blanket of earnestness. This is a
city where the Queen designs opera costumes, homosexual marriages have been
legal since 1989, the government tolerated hippie squatters on military land for
decades, and Santas parade through the streets in July.
 Tourist attractions range from the world's oldest amusement park to royal
palaces. On the museum scene, you can choose anything from a museum of the
Danish Resistance to an open-air museum with rural buildings from all over
Denmark.
Shopping offers a plethora of opportunities, from amber trinkets to Royal
Copenhagen Porcelain or Georg Jensen silver to Danish modern furniture. And when
you're hungry from looking at countless empty Flora Danica plates, you can head
for one of Copenhagen's more than 2,000 restaurants to enjoy smørrebrod
with cold Carlsberg beer or a five-course French feast.
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2nd inset photo copyright © Christian Alsing for Visit Copenhagen.
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