Denmark, oh Denmark! Country of castles, country of Vikings and fogs, fantastic country, ancient, incomprehensible … A small country that affects the whole world and their masterpieces, and his sincerity, and its small, very neat and comfortable towns. The heart of Denmark, its capital – the city of Copenhagen, translated from Danish as “Harbor merchants”. It was here, in Copenhagen. In ancient times lively merchants from overseas countries brought a variety of goods from everywhere and concluded its first deal with the Danes.
Copenhagen was quite small, one of Europe’s oldest city, located on two Zealand and Amager islands. However, Copenhagen is Denmark’s largest city, because it more than half a million inhabitants. And the suburbs – and does a million!
Copenhagen surprises with its eccentricity. It is a lively, prosperous, modern and at the same time, regal calm, ancient, impressive and a little sly. However, perhaps it is natural, since Copenhagen, according to some, as a settlement for over 6000 years. He was originally a small marina near where huddled houses of fishermen. Then the pier was chosen by overseas traders to dock their ships, and with time fishing village has become a prosperous town bustling.
The capital of Denmark Copenhagen, with a light hand of King Valdemar the Great, was proclaimed in 1343. And in the fifteenth century it became the capital of Sweden and Norway, and, as usual in such cases, the royal residence. Since then, the city experienced a great deal. It built castles and towers, it stormed the Swedes and the British, the Germans besieged, it was burning and dying from epidemics, but he survived. And so it remained a royal residence – the current Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, lives in the heart of this fantastic city.
Today, Copenhagen is serene, courteous, neat and comfortable. Once upon a time on its streets with old, who had seen a lot of houses, wander the great Hans Christian Andersen. Who knows, maybe in some of these little windows decorated with geraniums, and he saw Gerda and unhappy about his Kae? Who knows … In Copenhagen, all can be.
Copenhagen has smell of freshly baked bread, clean the shop windows friendly smile to passers-by and on the boulevards, including street musicians, it is important paces businesslike chimney sweeps. Well, maybe a city can not help but wonder? How could it happen that there was not anything that would be worth to see where to go and would have cost that would be worth listening to? Of course not!
