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Tivoli Gardens

Tivoli-GardensTivoli Garden is a well-known amusement park and is currently the most visited theme park in Scandinavia in Europe. The park opened for people on August 15, 1843 and became the second oldest amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg. Tivoli is constructed at the heart of Copenhagen - right next to the Central Station, Hovedbanegården. Tivoli's founder, Georg Carstensen acquired a five-year charter to generate Tivoli by telling King Christian VIII that "when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics”. For most Danes Tivoli is part of a summer tradition and plenty of them recall their childhood visits while visiting these Gardens.

With the unique atmosphere of this lighting garden, the people, the rides, the concerts etc, all have a nice time for gratification Tivoli garden captivates different enjoyment activities done by different people. Some come here to enjoy the plenty of, fantastic flowers or spend a day with their grandchildren. While others come here as part of an annual tradition with the relatives where ice cream, rides and having a lovely time at this centre. There are few who come here to attained cultural events in the Concert Hall, at the Pantomime Theater, in the Glass Hall Theater and the Open Air Stage.

Roller coaster rides in the garden

The park is best known for its wooden roller coaster ride, Rutsjebanen or as some people calls it Bjerg Banen (Mountain Track). It is one of the world's oldest wooden roller coasters rides that is still operating today. An operator controls the ride by breaking down the hills. Dæmonen (The Devil) is a roller coaster in the Danish amusement park, Tivoli Gardens. It opened on April 16, 2004 and features an Immelmann loop, a vertical loop, as well as a Zero-G roll. The riders experience g-forced up to three time gravity while traveling the 564 meters long ride.

Tickets to this amusement park
Admission to Tivoli Gardens is separated according to ages and costs 79 DDK (10 Euro) for adults and40 DDK (5 Euro) for children. So you can stay all day if you need but in order to seek all the fun rides you will need a tour pass which is a ticket that let you access to all the rides.

Trolley Bus
It’s fundamentally easy to be driven around the Tivoli Gardens for a change, by the means of trolley bus. This delightful small journey will bring you around most of the places except where one cannot drive - like ‘Smøgen’ - a narrow elderly street within Tivoli itself with a lot of different fun stuff to discover.

Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall and Pantomime Theatre

Built in 1956 by Hans Hansen and with the capacity to accommodate 1660 people, Tivoli Concert Hall is a classical concert hall which attributes concerts with several of the largest names in international classical music. In 2005 the concert hall saw a major renovation and expansion by 3XN where the classical 50’s styles of the main auditorium were renewed along with a characteristic color method of red, blue, yellow and green colors. The Royal Danish Pantomime Theater is an open-air theater designed by Vilhelm Dahlerup.

 

Louisiana Museum of Copenhagen

Louisiana-MuseumLouisiana Museum of Modern Art is without a doubt the best attempt to memorize Danish culture. In stunning surroundings, approximately 40 kilometers of north of Copenhagen Louisiana’s renowned, international artists contributes exhibitions to bring world class art to the forefront of the Danish art scene. This museum is a treasure trove of art that would make any other Scandinavian museum less popular. Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Francis Bacon, Sam Francis, Henry Moore, Picasso, Max Ernst, Rauschenberg and Warhol, are some in the long list of names that make up its permanent collection. As in comparison, the temporary exhibitions held keep the crowds coming back, with recent shows featuring such renowned artists as Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman and Lucien Freud.

The relaxing atmosphere of the museum's permanent collection, changing exhibitions of art, films, concerts, the children's wing, and the cafe inside and outside services contributes more visitors towards this place. The museum shop also serves with its giant collection of books, art reproductions, graphics, posters, postcards, design and classical CDs.

Exhibition held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an actual spectacular experience when traveling along Europe. Apart from the first class range of contemporary art, which includes classical masters of modern art as well as new and upcoming international artists, the high situated sculpture garden is beautifully facing the Oresund. When weather allows, visiting the place everyone can enjoy a picnic in the central clearing. But even when rain pours down it is a place of appealing harmonics and contrasts.

 

Kronborg Castle, Elsinore

Kronborg-Castle-ElsinoreKronborg Castle or Hamlets Castle depicts contribution work done by Shakespeare and his followers, built in 1590 by King Frederick II which is placed at Helsingor or which is formally named as ‘Elsinore’. After the fire tragedy in 1629 his son the great builder among Danish Kings Christian IV constructed the building of Kronborg Castle in 1638.Kronborg lies at the way in Oresund region, which made it an ideal position to collect sound duties from ships entering Oresund by securing their taxes and revenues.

Hamlet Castle was already a legend when Shakespeare commemorated his story in around 1600.But during Hamlet’s lifetime there, most probably wasn’t much facilities over a fort on Kronborg’s site, so real Hamlet probably did not lived there. Majority of people, who understand this nature of things that were during that period, thinks that Shakespeare intentionally made choice of Kronborg castle as the setting for his play because the castle was at its highest point of its grandeur during Shakespeare’s own lifetime. Though much of the current structure is part of a re-build which took place after a fire around 1620, Shakespeare didn’t see this version either, they got his information from touring artist who visited the seaside castle in around 1585.

When you visit Helsingor, the first tourist stop will probably be Kronborg Castle. It’s a place with a view of an impressive array of masterpieces and excellent casements. Kronborg Castle is the location for Shakespeare's Hamlet, but it is also the resting place for one of Denmark's greatest legends like Holger the Dane - who is meant to wait to protect Denmark, when Denmark will be assaulted .Every time you have toured the luxurious grounds including the moats and bastions that form the fortifications of Kornberg Castle, there is a feeling of jogging back in the ancient time. During the summer months there are lots of cultural events happening around the Toldkammeret including concerts, street performances, exhibitions and even a children's festival week.

 

National Museum of Copenhagen

National-MuseumThe National Museum is Denmark’s prime museum of Danish cultural history. The museum's main castle is a symbolist eighteenth century mansion and is the museum for whole of Denmark, where you can follow the history of the Danes rights even in the present day.The Danish National Gallery introduces 700 years of Western art cultural history. The procurement combines fascinating works completed by Mantegna and Tizian, Rembrandt and Rubens and much more well-known painters and other artists. The museum has a variant collection of pictures of Danish artists and painter’s portraits from the Golden Age era.

The special resemblance of this National museum is you will be pleased to find out dual kg massive gold-necklace that was found at the chieftain’s bench at Tisso in Western Zealand in 1977.Museum also contributes collection of antiques like the cup of King Gorm, a tiny, delicate silver cup that was found in the burial mound of King Gorm the Elderly in Jelling, along with hoards of silver coins and beautiful jewelries. Even an assortment of runic type stones that weigh some tons has been unruffled at the National Museum for exhibition in the Runic Hall.

After having a long tour for visual impressions you might definitely feel tired and hungry, but luckily you can take the edge of the appetite in the Cafe Republic. The cafe is exquisitely set in the modernistic extension of the museum with a beautiful view over the park, ostre Anlagen, and offers an exciting assembly of art and design. Works contributed by Paul Gernes and Kasper Salto adorn the walls and the chairs in the cafe. For Sunday guests the museum offers a free concert every week at 15.00 hrs on the museum stage. Admission to the procurements is free, while entry to the temporary testimonies is DKK 80.

 

Stroget-Carfree Zone

Stroget-Carfree ZoneStroget ,which literally means ‘the stroke’ is a carfree zone in Copenhagen, Denmark. This popular tourist attraction is in the centre of town famous for the longest pedestrian shopping area in Europe.

Its Copenhagen's largest shopping area which is centered on Stroget in the heart of the city. Stroget is the world's foremost pedestrian street with a wealth of shops, from budget-friendly chains to a quantity of the world's most pricey brands. The area stretches 1.1 km over and runs from City Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) to Kongens Nytorv.Its designate Stroget was unconfined from the 1800s and  it mainly wraps the streets of Frederiksberggade, Nygade, Vimmelskaftet, Nytorv square and Ostergade, Amagertorv Square.and Gammeltorv Square . In 1962 the stretch was originally called Routen street and in the years after it was converted to a pedestrian street.

Stroget is a popular hangout place for the town's buckers as well as street performers. At Amagertory Square you can often see performances among lots of other things, acrobats, magicians and artisans. In the closing stages of the street adhered to City Hall Square you ought to be suspicious of con artists who make money on amusements in which they ask spectators to judge the whereabouts of a ball under one of the cups.

Although Stroget is one of the longest pedestrian stretchs, the street name changes with every few blocks of shops and stores. Don't worry for this matter; it is hard to get lost if you follow the path.

 
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