As of 2009 Copenhagen has 13 Michelin star restaurants. Copenhagen is increasingly being recognized internationally as a gourmet destination.Apart from the selection of high end restaurants, Copenhagen offers a great variety of Danish, International and ethnic restaurants and it is possible to find modest eateries with open sandwiches (called "smørrebrød"), which is the traditional and best known dish for lunch. Most restaurants, though, serve international dishes. Danish pastry, another local specialty, can be sampled from the numerous bakeries found in all parts of the city.
Copenhagen has long been associated with beer. Carlsberg beer has been brewed at the brewery's premises at the border between Vesterbro and Valby districts since 1847 and has long been almost synonymous with Danish beer production. However, recent years have seen an explosive growth in the number of microbreweries so that Denmark today has more than 100 breweries, many of which are located in Copenhagen. Some like Nørrebro Bryghus also act as brewpubs where it is possible also to eat at the premises.
Copenhagen was mentioned by Clean Edge as one of the key cleantech clusters to watch in their 2008 book The Cleantech Revolution. The city is the focal point for more than 300 cleantech companies drawing on 46 research institutions. The cluster employs more than 60.000 people and is characterized by a close collaboration between universities, business and governing institutions. The regions most important cleantech research institutions are the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy and the Technical University of Denmark which Risø is now part of. Leading up to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference the University of Copenhagen held the Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions conference where the need for comprehensive action to mitigate climate change was stressed by the international scientific community. Notable figures such as Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, Professor Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Report and Professor Daniel Kammen all emphasized the good example set by Copenhagen in capitalizing on cleantech, achieving economic growth, with stabilizing carbon emissions. (see "Environment" below).
Copenhagen is the media centre of Denmark. DR, the major Danish public service broadcasting corporation collected their activities in a new headquarters, DR byen, in 2006 and 2007. Similarly has Odense based TV2 collected its Copenhagen activities in a modern media house in the South Harbour. [65] The two national daily newspapters Politiken and Berlingske Tidende and the two tabloids Ekstra Bladet and B. T. are based in Copenhagen. Other important media corporations include Aller Press which is the largest publisher of weekly and monthly magazines in Scandinavia, the Egmont media group and Gyldendal, the largest Danish publisher of books.
Copenhagen also has a sizable movie and television industry. Filmbyen, The Movie City, which is located in a former military camp in the suburg of Hvidovre and houses several movie companies and studio studios. Among the movie campanies are Zentropa co-owned by Danish movie director Lars von Trier who is behind several international movie productions as well as a founding force behind the Dogma Movement.
Museum Thorvaldsena (duń. Thorvaldsens Museum) in Copenhagen - the art museum located in the capital of the Kingdom of Denmark to Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads 2, next to the palace of Christiansborg.
In 1837 began the collection of money for the museum sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsena that in 1838 he returned to the country after 40 years of residence in Rome. In 1839 started construction of a museum under the supervision of Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøla and it was opened 18 September 1848 as the first museum in Denmark. Thorvaldsen died in 1844 and a week before the opening of its prochami coffin was moved from the cathedral into the museum and the artist finally buried
The Little Mermaid (Den duń. Lille Havfrue) - statue representing a character from a small ensemble of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen (which is half-woman, half-fish), located in the Port of Copenhagen. Monument is 1.25 m in height and weighs approximately 175 kg.
Sculpture has been ordered and founded in 1909 by the son of the founder of the brewery Carlsberg - Carl Jacobsen, whose history fascinated presented in the ballet The Little Mermaid. Monument to perform a Danish sculptor Edvard Eriksen and 23 August 1913 was unveiled. Eriksen was the model for his latest wife - dancer Ellen Price.
The Little Mermaid has become one of the most famous symbol of Copenhagen and is known worldwide tourist attraction, as evidenced by the fact that in many cities created a copy of the statue.
Mandatory point of the tour in Copenhagen is the Carlsberg brewery. It
is located in the southwestern part of Copenhagen. From the center, you
can walk to get there in about 30 minutes. The brewery is located near
a beautiful park.
Tour of
the brewery are paid. The entrance is at street Gamle Carlsberg Vej.
Tour starts with the exposure collection of beers from around the
world. On the shelves, with glass cabinet has been more than 70
thousand bottles of beer from all over the world. You can also find
Polish beer. During the tour can be accurately poznań Pivovarova Danish
history. Learn how to ważyło formerly beer, and as now. Very
interesting tour ends tasting beer. In a local bar, you can try many
species of beer (often not available in Poland). You might try the more
exotic species.
In the middle of the town of Tivoli, Europe's oldest amusement park. There are some nostalgic rides, a few new ones. Moreover, in one of the 28 restaurants, eat well and enjoy cultural events, so the Tivoli offers all kinds of musical performances, theater performances and not least the nightly illumination of the entire park.
Traditionally one of Frueplads in Copenhagen on 3 August weekend the craftsmen and designers and their fans. Organized this small, 3-day fair with about 120 exhibitors judged by the Association of Danish craftsmen, under white umbrellas and mostly blue sky. One finds there really is the best thing Denmark in this field has to show. Even hochdekorierte design award winners and museum mature applied artists are far too bad at this perfectly organized market participate. On the contrary, by many, I know that it is the relaxed atmosphere there and love the opportunity for detailed discussions with customers and collectors like to use. The jurors are always create a diverse and stimulating mix of youthful design and tradition together to make. The open, Danish nature, which only the friendly succession to go seems to know, are thinking Dünkel drawer and apparently alien. Pottery and porcelain, glass, textiles, jewelry and accessories are available, but primarily it "market merchandise", ie more or less Practical and Affordable. The delicate collectibles or precious gems to get it but only in exhibitions, galleries and, of course, in the studios themselves to be seen.
CopenhagenThe weather in Copenhagen is mild through all the four seasons.
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark. It is situated on the Zealand and Amager Islands and is separated from Malmö, Sweden by the strait of Øresund.
With the completion of the transnational Oresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö are connected by a car/rail link and are in the process of integrating their labour markets, resulting in the number of commuters from both sides growing annually.
In 2008, the magazine Monocle listed Copenhagen first in their Top 20 Most Livable Cities Chart, and gave the city the special award as "Best Design City". In addition, it has also been classified as a GaWC Cultural World City, while it is 3rd in Western Europe in the rivalry over regional headquarters and distribution centers, only surpassed by London and Paris.
The original designation for the city, from which the contemporary Danish name is derived, was Køpmannæhafn, "merchants' harbor". The English name for the city is derived from its Low German name, Kopenhagen. The element hafnium is named after the city's Latin name, Hafnia.
The conurbation of Copenhagen consists of several municipalities. The central and largest is Copenhagen municipality, the second largest is Frederiksberg municipality which is an enclave inside Copenhagen municipality. Both are contained in the larger Copenhagen Capital Region, which contains most of the Copenhagen metropolitan area.
Monocle's eagerly awaited annual ranking of the world's best cities is revealed in the magazine's July/August 2008 issue, on newsstands from 19 June. Of all the cities in the world, Copenhagen is ranked no. 1 when it comes to offering its residents and visitors the highest quality of life. Monocle was established last year as the arbiter of what's great about a city, and in addition to being the magazine's no. 1 city, the Danish capital also takes a lead world wide as "Design City"
Previously, the areas of Frederiksberg, Gentofte and Copenhagen municipalities have been used to define the city of Copenhagen. This definition is now obsolete. To meet statistical needs after the latest municipal reform, which took place in the beginning of 2007, an effort has been made to work out definitions of lands (landsdele) in Denmark. A land is basically a geographical and statistical definition, and the area is not considered to be an administrative unit. The land of Copenhagen City includes the municipalities of Copenhagen, Dragør, Frederiksberg and Tårnby, with a total population of 656,582 in the beginning of 2008.
Copenhagen and Frederiksberg were two of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county. On 1 January 2007, the municipalities lost their county privileges and became part of Copenhagen Capital Region.
