A bronze bishop on horseback rises above Hojbro Plads, axe in hand, gazing toward the island of Slotsholmen where his fortress once stood. The equestrian statue portrays Absalon (c. 1128-1201), the warrior-bishop of Roskilde and later archbishop of Lund who is credited as the founder of Copenhagen: around 1167 he built a castle on the islet that now carries Christiansborg Palace, and the fishing village beside it grew into the Danish capital. The monument was created by sculptor Vilhelm Bissen .....

Just a short metro ride from the centre of Copenhagen, Amager Strandpark is a popular beach park that gives the Danish capital its own stretch of sand and sea. Created in its present form in 2005, the park added a two-kilometre artificial island just offshore, separated from the original shore by a shallow lagoon, greatly expanding the city seaside playground. The design cleverly created two very different bathing experiences. The calm, shallow lagoon between the island and the mainland is idea.....

Museum restaurants rarely earn their own cookbook, but Apollo did: the courtyard restaurant of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, at the mouth of Nyhavn beside Kongens Nytorv, is the home kitchen of chef Frederik Bille Brahe, one of the defining figures of Copenhagen's casual-fine-dining wave. The setting is the historic courtyard of the 17th-century Charlottenborg palace, which houses the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its contemporary exhibition hall - no exhibition ticket is required to eat here.....

From the street it looks like any other classic Copenhagen shopfront, but behind the window on the corner of Stormgade and H.C. Andersens Boulevard archaeologists sit sorting, washing and registering finds dug up from beneath the city's streets. The Archaeological Workshop (Arkaeologisk Vaerksted) is a working facility of the Museum of Copenhagen, opened in 2017 on the back of the huge public interest in archaeology generated by the metro excavations. On selected open days - typically during sc.....

With more than 1,000 beds upstairs, the bar of Danhostel Copenhagen City never lacks company. BAR50 occupies the ground floor of the high-rise hostel on H.C. Andersens Boulevard by Langebro bridge, and works in shifts: breakfast room in the morning, cafe through the day with coffee, cakes and snacks, and from evening a proper bar pouring draught beer, bottled specials, cocktails and wine with a view over the harbour canal. The design-hostel setting - Gubi furniture and Bestlite lamps run throug.....

Some 380 member organisations and around 1,100 professionals share desks, labs and meeting rooms at BLOXHUB, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation headquartered in the BLOX building on Copenhagen's harbourfront. Founded on 3 June 2016 by the philanthropic association Realdania, the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, it is a non-profit member association built on the idea that global urbanisation and climate challenges can only be solved .....

Headquartered at Hojbro Plads 10 in central Copenhagen (the Matrikel1 building by Gammel Strand), the Brand Leadership Community (BLC) is a professional network for the people behind brands - marketers, brand strategists, analysts and marketing technologists. Founded in the Nordics and global in reach, it runs meetups, user groups, workshops, masterclasses and multi-day events such as the Brand Analytics Festival and Adobe Analytics masterclasses, most of them hosted at the Hojbro Plads headquar.....

A dusty book depot under Islands Brygge Library was reborn in 2016 as Bryggekaelderen, the neighbourhood's atmospheric underground culture venue. Floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with books and hidden nooks line the concrete walls, giving the cellar what its keepers describe as a mix of living room and bunker - an identity all its own beneath the smallest and arguably cosiest library in Copenhagen. The programming is deliberately open-ended: poetry evenings, concerts, children's events, film scr.....

CEPOS (Center for Politiske Studier) is Denmark's leading classical-liberal think tank, founded in 2004 and headquartered at Landgreven 3 in central Copenhagen, a few minutes from Kongens Nytorv. The institute produces analyses on tax, welfare, public spending and regulation, and its premises host a steady programme of debates, lectures, book launches and courses for students and professionals. The address functions as an office and event space for the think tank's own arrangements rather than a.....

Billed by many regulars as Copenhagen's cosiest music room, Christiania Jazz Club occupies the ground floor of the Opera building near Pusher Street in the freetown of Christiania. The club shares its home with the Borneteateret (children's theatre), and the space has the worn, candle-lit, defiantly analogue charm of the freetown itself - reviewers consistently describe an intimate vintage room where musicians and audience practically share the same breath. Jazz is the backbone - live sets midw.....