I came to Copenhagen for a couple of days - the best city in the world. The capital of Denmark is constantly included in all sorts of positive ratings as the best city. For example, the environment here is the best among European capitals. There are many parks in the city and residents often take walks there. Copenhagen was recognized as the friendliest place for gays, the healthiest city in the world due to the active lifestyle of its residents, and simply the best city to live. Of course, there is excellent public transport, amazing food, and most importantly - bikes!
In Copenhagen, about 50% of the population regularly uses a bicycle to travel around the city. Almost every local resident has his own bicycle, and about 2,000 bicycle rental centers are available to tourists. The city has 400 km of bicycle paths. They use bicycles here all year round, in snow and rain.
It should also be noted that Copenhagen is a very compact city, just over a million people live in it, there are no skyscrapers, and in general you feel incredibly comfortable on the streets.
01. Here it is, simple Danish happiness, sitting on the shore with a glass of beer and greeting boats passing by, on which they also drink beer and greet you. 
02. Or lie on a man under an umbrella 
03. Everything in Copenhagen is good. You don't have to go somewhere special to enjoy the urban environment. There are parks, beautiful embankments, and cafes everywhere. And, of course, there are not as many people as in other cities. 
04. Beauty 
05. Canals, boats, colored buildings. Copenhagen is like Amsterdam, but without the crowds of crazy tourists. 
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07. There are almost no lampposts in Copenhagen, and they hang all the lamps on guy wires above the roads. It looks very good, although the number of wires increases. 
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09. A beautiful tower like from a fairy tale. You can climb it for 450 rubles. 
10. The view from above is gorgeous. We will return to it later. 
11. Denmark's most famous promenade 
12. Now let's return to cyclists. As I already said, 50% of cyclists in Copenhagen are the most cycling city in the world. 
Cyclists are the main ones here, but this situation also imposes responsibility on them. In Denmark, cyclists are fined!
For example, riding without hands, no light after sunset, two people riding on one bike, no reflectors or faulty brakes will cost you 7,000 rubles!
Running a red light, talking on a cell phone, driving against traffic - a fine of 10,000 rubles! Low-income citizens and students can request a reduction in the fine to 5,000.
13. Pedestrians are also fined If you stepped onto a bike path and caused a cyclist to fall, you could be fined 500 euros! Sometimes the sidewalks are very narrow, unlike the bike paths, but people behave according to the rules and don’t break them. 
14. Bicycle markings at intersections. 
15. The future belongs to electric vehicles. 
16. Overpasses on the embankment 
17. High. The city continues to actively build bicycle roads in the suburbs. At the end of 2011, the city's first "bike superstrada" opened. It stretches 15 km from central Copenhagen. 
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19. A simple and beautiful solution - a sports wall on the embankment. 
20. Bicycle overpass in one of the city districts. Pedestrians are not allowed! Fine 130 euros. 
21. People relax and walk below, and ride bicycles above. 
22. Beauty! 
23. Special ramps are made on the stairs for descending bicycles. 
24. City 
25. Public spaces 
26. There are beautiful tables on the streets, people are sitting and relaxing. 
27. And no one piles up any extensions to their restaurants, like ours. Just tables. The city becomes lively and friendly. 
28. Nice walk 
29. There is a branded shop in Copenhagen. She's everywhere here! 
30. Even at the airport, in the baggage claim area, there are such benches! 
31. Power plant 
32. View of the center 
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34. Modern architecture fits very organically into the historical environment. 
35. Copenhagen, by the way, is the greenest city in the world! It has been ranked first for several years in a row. It is followed by Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vancouver and London. There are no Moscow and Omsk. 
36. New areas 
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38. How cute! 
39. Surprisingly, no one glazes balconies. Please note that all sidewalks are paved with paving stones, and in the center there are two strips of smooth slabs so that you can carry a stroller without shaking. 
40. Parking 
41. Modern architecture and swimming pool 
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43. The city is actively being built 
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45. New residential buildings. 
46. Copenhagen is very nice 
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48. Instead of clasps, baby pacifiers are attached to bridges. By the way, this year in Copenhagen it was forbidden to hang locks due to the threat of bridge railings collapsing. But the nipples remain. There is such a tradition in Denmark - when a child turns three years old, he is given a ritual of farewell to the pacifier. Parents take their child to the park and tie a pacifier to the branches of a tree. At the same time, the baby is prepared for this ritual - before the third birthday, they are taken to the tree to watch how other children say goodbye to their favorite pacifier, and to get used to the idea that they too will have to go through this. But someone changes the ancient tradition a little and hangs pacifiers not on a tree, but on bridges. 
49. By the way! Copenhagen has its own DriveNow car sharing (short-term rental, when you can take a car at one point in the city and leave it in another). The city purchased 400 BMW i3 electric vehicles. Electric cars are synchronized with public transport in Copenhagen: to save time, the system can offer to transfer from the car to public transport, and will also indicate a free parking space. 
Continue tomorrow!
01. I’ll tell you the main thing right away - it’s difficult to take a photo in the city without a bicycle. Well, the cycling infrastructure in the city is being maintained and developed. At first I thought about making a separate post about it, but then I thought it would be unnecessary, after all, just recently I posted a local design guide (). So just a few photos:
02. Bike counter: 
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05. By the way, it’s strange, but the typical parking in Copenhagen is wheel-mounted. Not the most convenient option, but this is everywhere here: 
06. Yard: 
07. Street: 
08. By the way, it’s a good idea to arrange bicycle parking in the visibility zone of the arrival - it doesn’t interfere with the view, and space isn’t wasted: 
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10. Local boor: 
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12. Flea market: 
13. There is a bike rental in the city. Electric. Some 250 rubles per hour and you are on wheels with a battery: 
14. Each has a tablet with navigation, feedback, and so on: 
15. The motor helps you reach a speed of 25 km/h, after which it turns off. It does this smoothly, without any complaints. The screen, by the way, is locked while driving so as not to distract: 
16. Why exactly 25 km/h? Because cycling green waves are tuned exactly to this speed: 
17. But they don’t write that they will charge you 250 rubles per hour, even if you drove for 15 minutes. There was an unpleasant surprise when I drove for half an hour, but they charged me for the whole hour, and they also took an advance payment of 2000 rubles, although there was not a word about it... 
18. In general, they love electric transport here - I have never seen so many electric cars in my entire life as here. Although the bicycles are dominated by the most ordinary ones. 
19. Part of the city is located on islands, so, naturally, there is nowhere without bridges. But they are made primarily for pedestrians and cyclists, and only last but not least for personal transport: 
20. Almost all of them are adjustable (as in the title photo): 
21. A new bicycle and pedestrian bridge, which was opened a couple of days after my visit. It does not rise, but moves together like two forks: 
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23. Streets have three levels: sidewalk, bike path and roadway. The exits are often made simply from asphalt: 
24. Bicycle fascism 
25. By the way, fun fact, once upon a time there were Copenhagen and Frederiksberg - two different cities that eventually merged. But de jure the communes are still different, but it is very problematic to understand where one is and where the other is, they are so integrated into each other. But there are two differences. First of all, in Fredericksburg the bike paths are not blue, but reddish. The photo shows the transition from one city to another: 
26. Secondly, if in Copenhagen payment for parking is carried out electronically, then his neighbor still has a parking clock: 
27. Let's walk around the city. The pavement is always covered with two strips of smooth slabs to allow the stroller to pass: 
28. Quite often, if width allows, in Copenhagen they make part of the sidewalk from crumbs (I don’t know, granite or what else). It looks cool, you can safely run on this surface, plus it conducts water well into the ground: 
29. Sports ground: 
30. Another site, with a street projector (although some gifted person ruined the screen wall): 
31. In general, public spaces here are decorated quite well: modern, restrained, functional: 
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33. Street as a public space: 
34. Living City: 
35. In Copenhagen, outdoor barbecue culture is very common; in some places the tables have a special metal insert: 
36. Disposable barbecues with coal cost about 400 rubles. But there are also just street ones: 
37. Street tables, as a place for communication, are a typical feature of the city: 
38. Embankment: 
39. There once was a port with warehouses: 
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41. And now it’s forbidden to make kebabs here: 
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44. There’s a beach right there: 
45. Have I gone down the passages in the city? No. Are there off-street crossings here? Yes: 
46. There are still hatches in the city: 
47. And all the hydrants are closed with clamps: 
48. Some of the drainpipes are properly removed into the storm drain, and some simply water the feet of pedestrians. Strange. 
49. Regular school: 
50. The Danes have very good modern architecture, there will be a separate post about this: 
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52. Schoolyard, isn’t it cool? 
53. And under the hill there is a utility warehouse: 
And yes, there is free access everywhere.
54. And behind the wall of the school... a cemetery: 
55. At least walk along it and study the history - tombstones from the 17th century to the present day. Here they planted trees near the grave, and over the course of a couple of hundred years they grew slightly. Soon, I suppose, the slab will be swallowed up: 
56. This is Copenhagen. 
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On a scale of ten, Copenhagen deserves a visit out of 10. Unfortunately, it’s just expensive.
Sometimes trips are born spontaneously and unplanned...
That's what happened this time.
Outside the window there is snowfall, terrible holes, Moscow is standing (November 29).
And somehow I really wanted to fly away somewhere from all this!
I opened the Internet, did some digging - everything is expensive. for 20,000 for 2... And then suddenly I found on the Aeroflot website round-trip tickets to Copenhagen for 17t for two!
Oops! But we haven’t been to Denmark yet!
I immediately buy it for Saturday, December 1st (back on the 4th), call my wife - we’re flying!
Denmark, welcome!
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Bearing in mind the traffic jams on Thursday and Friday, we decided to take the Aeroexpress to Sheremetyevo.
However, it has become more expensive - 320 rubles for one.
I haven’t been to Sheremetyevo for a very long time. We fly mainly from Domodedovo.
I was very pleased with Terminal D - modern, cozy and not very crowded (departure was around 8 pm).
Passport control and verification went very quickly.
The plane was half empty. People slept on 3 armchairs)))
The time difference with Denmark is 3 hours)) So we landed even earlier (in time) than we took off :)
Copenhagen Airport - Kastrup.
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We exchanged 100 euros at the airport to get to the hotel and maybe buy something - and we made a mistake!
The exchange rate at the airport was 1 euro - 6.4 crowns. But at the same time some kind of tax was withheld and it turned out to be 5.7 crowns!!!
When you pay by card, the cash debit rate ranges from 7 to 8 CZK (depending on the “path” of the payment to the bank)! Agree, much more profitable!
They didn’t withdraw cash anymore and paid everywhere only with cards. They are even accepted at street stalls and at the Christmas market.
So my advice is to forget about cash. Not profitable (by the way, in restaurants you can also pay tips by card :)
Well, let's get back to the story.
As a child, I always liked to watch the subway driver - how he drove the train in the tunnel. I remember we rubbed holes with a coin in the paint covering
the driver's door from prying eyes and looked, imagining as if we were driving a train.
In the Copenhagen metro you can feel like a driver without any problems.
The fact is that it simply isn’t there!!
Everything is automatic.
You can sit at the very beginning of the train and enjoy the spectacle))
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When we arrived, it was +3 in the city and there wasn’t even a smell of snow :)
In the morning, leaving the hotel (Richmond Hotel - I recommend. Not expensive, the rooms are good and 5-10 minutes walk from the center) we saw,
that the city has changed!
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It was snowing heavily and there was already snow everywhere)
This was exactly what I wanted)))
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This is a railroad. You can also quickly travel along it from the airport to the city center.
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The cyclists resembled ruffled sparrows sitting on a branch during frost.
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I will post photos 3 days in advance, so some will have snowfall, others will not))
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Hans Christian Anderson Boulevard (H.C. Andersens Blvd.) - sounds fabulous :)
Imagine a dialogue:
- How to get to the library?
- Walk straight along Hans Christan Anderson Boulevard, turn onto the street of the steadfast tin soldier and see the library near the Ole Lukøje tower.
I would kill for such an answer :)
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Another retreat.
Previously, I thought that the most cycling country in Europe was.
Horseradish! The most cycling country is Denmark. Well, or, at least, no less “cycled” :)
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Bicycles are everywhere and in abundance!!!
They stand in large and small groups.
They lie on the roads, in the bushes, hanging on trees and lying at the bottom of canals - in abundance.
Absolutely all city roads, paths and paths have dedicated areas for cyclists.
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All traffic lights have a separate signal for bicycles.
The intersections have their own routes, highlighted in blue.
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The topic of bicycles will smoothly “slide” throughout the entire report (and it will be in 4 parts).
And we move on.
Monument to the little bugler near Town Hall Square.
From this angle you can see that the soldier is carrying a wounded bugler...
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and from this it’s as if our Siberian man is carrying his “tired” friend home from hunting and fishing :)
This is the association
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Town Hall Square.
Town Hall - first on the right
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there's a mailbox right there. Very stylish.
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out of 12 chairs, only 4 are left. They are waiting for Ostap. At the local theater.
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The cyclists were amazing. Some rode all bundled up, others in shorts and T-shirts. But it was 0 degrees.
Yes, and passers-by here and there flashed in sneakers on bare feet...
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again the town hall.
Built in the 18th century, the height of the tower is 105.6 meters.
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Trash fountain at the town hall.
Everything is intertwined in a ball and you can’t make out anything in this little heap :)
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Bas-relief at the town hall
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There are 2 more beautiful buildings on the Town Hall Square
But I couldn’t find what it is on the Internet (((
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Well, the main Christmas tree is on the same square.
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Since the city is by the sea, there are a lot of seagulls in it.
Here they are instead of pigeons (although there are plenty of pigeons too).
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Vikings. Scandinavia after all.
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Many buildings in the city center are decorated with interesting bas-reliefs.
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in Copenhagen they also play KVN.
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The girl was so lost in thought that she almost knocked me over. I barely jumped out from under the wheels :)
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Delivery of Christmas trees to organizations
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I go mushroom picking with these baskets. Exactly the same!
1. A lot. However, according to my feelings, in Amsterdam it is no less. A critical mass of bicycles reduces theft rates. There are an order of magnitude more great than potential thieves. In addition, most bikes are budget utilitarian models that are not in their first youth. This allows Copenhageners to leave their bikes on the stock horseshoe-shaped lock that locks the rear wheel. That is, the bike can simply be carried away, but the chances of this happening are quite small.
2. Despite the total cyclization of cars, no one survived from Copenhagen and public transport is excellently developed. In a word, the transport system is balanced.
3. We got to the Danish capital from Swedish Malmo through the epic Öresund Bridge - the longest in Europe. They charge about 35 euros for driving a car through it. St. Petersburg residents can imagine what our future WHSD will look like.
4. Copenhagen is a city of very open views. There are cute plastic phalluses in the window.
5. The Danes, like the Swedes, are avid flower growers. A special plaque depicts a diagram of the arrangement of different types of flowers in the garden bed near the town hall.
6. The city center is quite popular. Here are, as the Danes say, “charmerende gamle huse” and pedestrian shopping miles. But there are also unusual buildings.
7. Architectural functionalism, it turns out, is also capable of aging gracefully if it is lined with copper.
8. Often in ancient cities there is a tower on which a clock strikes at a certain time and all sorts of figures ride around for the amusement of visitors. So there is a gold-plated cyclist riding in Kopen.
9. When a bicycle is the only means of transport for a city dweller, everyday decisions come naturally. To transport cargo, a basket or bags on the trunk may not be enough. Therefore, tricycles with luggage compartment are in use.
11. Cycling in the Danish capital, which has a million inhabitants, would not be possible without adapting public transport to bicycles. They offer to transport bicycles on the subway, trains and even on water buses. And in order not to miss the special compartments on the platforms, they draw a bicycle pictogram.
12. The city is penetrated by a network of very comfortable, spacious and well-designed S-Tog city trains (analogous to the German S-bahn). Each carriage has a large compartment for passengers with wheels. It is intended not only for cyclists, but also for mothers with strollers, as well as for the disabled. A critical point for our future planners: these three groups often share the same infrastructure. If not all the space is occupied by bicycles, the seats recline and any passenger can sit there.
13. People at the traffic light.
14. Before you is St. Petersburg in 10 years. These are paid parking zones in the center. The red sector is the most expensive, the green sector is cheaper, and the blue sector costs even less. You can pay not only at parking meters but also via SMS.
15. One of the main attractions of Copenhagen is the Christiania quarter, founded by hippies in the early 70s right in the city center on the site of empty barracks. Today it is a Rastafarian paradise. In truth, I had no idea that such outrage was allowed anywhere else except Holland. In the center of the block is Green Street, which two “lookers” at the entrance recommend not to photograph. Here I decided to follow the ban, because in front of me there was not, but rows of pushers with plates of hashish neatly laid out on trays and piles of various types of marijuana. Life is in full swing here almost around the clock. Music is playing, bars are open, everyone is smoking.
16. Christiania is quite extensive, self-governing and self-sufficient. Many houses here are self-built in the middle of wooded bushes. There is even a hardware store on site. There is no car traffic inside.
17. The area next to the hot spot gradually became bourgeois.
18. Children's toys in the yard sandbox are covered with a net - this is not the first time I have seen this. Perhaps from crows.
19. I wonder if any of the readers know, in accordance with what European doctrine, children of five years old continue to be carried in strollers, like paralytics? Despite the fact that the legs have to be folded in half to fit the child and the iPad into the stroller.
20. Our stay in Kopen was on the weekend. The Danes relaxed in their own way. It should be noted that the specific spirit of Christiania spread far beyond its borders. Many people spend the weekend on a boat. Sitting like this with a newspaper is, in my opinion, a dubious pleasure.
21. What should my daughter and mother order on Sunday afternoon? Of course, half a liter of Carlsberg!
22. Sunday flea market. All sellers and buyers are notorious hipsters.
23. The Copenhagen metro is fully automated. There is no staff, or rather, of course there is, but the passenger has little chance of meeting them. You can sit by the windshield and look into the tunnel through the eyes of an absent driver, whose role is played by automation. The stations are new, but uninteresting. The platform is fenced off with transparent walls, as at some stations in.
24. The Aquabus looks like a floating armored personnel carrier, but inside it has about 50 plush seats. You can take baby strollers and bicycles on board. It runs along the main waterway. Along the water, Copenhagen is built almost exclusively with modern buildings.
25. Modern cities have long been “measured” not by palaces, not by the height of skyscrapers and not by the number of inhabitants, but by operas. Copenhagen has something to brag about here - the architecture of the building is good, and the performances are on the level. Unfortunately, the season was already closed.
26. Outside the center of Copenhagen there are several pleasant historical areas. The ordinary buildings here in some places resemble. And in some places it looks like Ligovsky Prospekt.
27. Sweet dreams of fashionable transport workers - a street with pedestrian, bicycle and bus traffic. Personal cars and motorcycles are prohibited from entering.
26. Scandinavia is quite rainy, and the appearance of galleries above the sidewalks is absolutely justified. It would also do well for St. Petersburg to adopt such a concept, but it probably contradicts some snips.
27. Once we had a car, we made a foray into the city of Elsinore (Helsingør), which is 40 km from Copenhagen to the north. The attraction for tourists here is Hamlet's castle, located on the island. The city itself is a pleasant, civilized backwater.
28. By the way, even without a car it’s easy to get here on the space train. There are also ferries from Helsingor across the strait to Swedish Helsingborg - for those who don’t want to go over the bridge.
29. Upon returning, we only had time to quickly examine the mermaid sculpture (believe me, this is not the main thing in Copenhagen) and board the DFDS ferry, which was supposed to take us to Oslo overnight.
I devoted my second day in Copenhagen to modern architecture. Even bad weather and drizzling rain did not stop me from taking a bike and exploring new areas of the Danish capital. By the way, Denmark is one of the most convenient countries to live in. The trip was wonderful, next week I will post a whole series of reports about new housing and sleeping areas in Copenhagen. Also under the cut you will find the Free City of Christiania, a cute cat and swimming in the canals.
01. I woke up in the morning, and there... RAIN! Fine, nasty, drizzling rain. 
02. Beautiful glass boxes were built in the center. 
03. I took my bike and rode south. Look what a wonderful road it is. What makes the road so beautiful? Have you noticed anything unusual? There are no wires here! Yes, wires are a real problem in Russian cities. Throughout the civilized world, wires have long been hidden underground, but here they hang over the streets like a cobweb. On the right is the bike path. 
04. Metro station. Trains are driverless and run automatically. Purely. No wires. Beauty. 
05. Most of my compatriots will fall into a stupor from this photograph. That's impossible! The photo shows a terrible traffic jam. There is only one row left for cars, despite the fact that the road is wide. NOBODY! Not a single bastard enters the public transport lane. No one rides on the bike path. Please note that intersections are also free. NOBODY enters an intersection if there is a traffic jam ahead. This can be seen especially clearly in the background, there is a large intersection and a gap between cars of about 100 meters, but they are free and no one gets in there. By the way, the streets in Copenhagen are illuminated by hanging lanterns. There are almost no lampposts in the city. 
06. There will be separate posts about modern architecture. I will tell you more about each building. 3XN architects opened the largest congress center in Copenhagen in 2011 -
Bella Sky. The building is 75 m high with 25 floors and includes a hotel, a congress center and an office block. 
07. Interior. The walls are covered with living plants. Looks very cool. 
08. Or this parking lot. House-mountain. Created by the architectural bureau Bjarke Ingels Group in 2007! 33,000 square meters combine 10 floors of parking. Apartments cascade down onto the roof of the parking lot. Each apartment has its own garden. 
09. There will be a big post about this wonderful house;) 
10. Elevator in the parking lot 
11. This building "8" in plan resembles a bow tie or a figure eight with sharp corners. The project was developed by the international architectural bureau Bjarke Ingels Group. 
12. 8 House is located on the outskirts of the Ørestad district of Copenhagen. The area of the facility is 61 thousand square meters. m, it includes a residential part, as well as offices and shops. 
13. Cafe 
14. The building also includes two courtyards, separated by a cross-lintel, where the premises are reserved for public space. 
15. Social housing. 
16. Another interesting social housing complex is VM house, designed by the architectural bureau PLOT. The name of the complex was given by its layout: it consists of two buildings, which in plan resemble the Latin letters V and M, respectively. This interesting configuration made it possible to provide the houses with maximum light and create a large number of apartment layout options. In particular, in the sharp corners of the “letters” the architects placed studios, triangular in plan, intended for young childless couples or bachelors, and on the bends – elevator cores. 
17. In the yard there is a huge grill for picnics with friends. 
18. Balconies. 
19. More social housing. 
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21. A separate post will be about courtyards. Many people have asked how to make a yard without shells and parking lots? Very simple). By the way, the photo shows garbage containers. There are carts near them to make it more convenient for residents to deliver their garbage. 
22. Lanterns and trash containers in another yard. No wires or fences. Lawns are made at sidewalk level or slightly lower. Dirt and soil from lawns does not fall onto the paths, so it is CLEAN. 
23. Another example of a track. The lawn is level with it. There are two grooves on the sides for water. Storm drain grates every 5 metres. The path itself is made of natural stone. The slabs are large, it is convenient to walk on them with a stroller and walk on heels. There are no puddles here. This is a track done right. 
24. Top view of the area near the house. Natural stone everywhere. 
25. There is a trash can for dog poop on the bridge) 
26. Children's playground in the yard. 
27. Bridge over the canal. 
28. LED lamp post. The pole itself is covered with solar panels, with batteries inside. Charges during the day and stays on all night. 
29. Manhole covers. 
30. All parking is paid, even in courtyards. This is right. Parking must be paid everywhere. To convert to rubles, multiply crowns by 5. On the left are the tariffs for open parking in the yard, on the right for parking in the “House-Mountain”. A day in open parking costs 400 rubles, on weekends 250. 
31. Drinks. 
32. Cat. 
33. On the advice of readers, I went to the Free City of Christiania. This is a partially self-governing, unofficial “state within a state.” Christiania, despite opponents among the Danish authorities, has a special semi-legal status in Denmark and partial independence. In fact, this is an entire block taken over by drug addicts and shitheads. I don’t know what else to call these lovely people. 
34. The inhabitants of Christiania proclaim their goal “to create a self-governing society in which each individual is responsible for the well-being of the entire community. Society must be economically self-sufficient, and be adamant in the belief that physiological and physical destruction can be prevented." So far we have only managed to dirty up an entire block. 
35. The artist admires his creation. 
36. Christiania is a quarter of Copenhagen with only two entrances. At the entrances lie large stones, which were repeatedly removed by the government, but returned to their place by the inhabitants of Christiania. The permanent population is about 1000 people, there are hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, and a secondary school. The inhabitants of Christiania observe their own laws, independent of the laws of Denmark. Among them: bans on cars, theft, hard drugs, firearms and body armor. The main street is Pusher Street. Light drugs are traded there and photography is prohibited. Signs with crossed out cameras are visible ahead. The ban is observed quite strictly. There are a lot of guards on the approaches to the street who ask you to put the camera in your backpack and cover the lens. They monitor phones. Theoretically, it is possible to remove it, but it is not necessary. People come here to use drugs. The inhabitants of Christiania protect them first of all. 
Assortment of a street drug shop. Such trays are placed every 5 meters.
37. In February 2011, the Danish Supreme Court made a decision in the Christiania squatter quarter, allowing everyone to be evicted. According to the verdict, they have no rights to the territory they currently occupy, which belongs to the state. In April, police conducted a raid there to identify drug dealers; the population of Christiania was outraged by the actions of the police. Law enforcement officers began to be pelted with cobblestones and empty bottles, and barricades quickly appeared on the streets. The police responded with tear gas. 
38. On 15 August 2011, the BBC reported that Christiania had been given semi-autonomous status by the authorities. According to the new law, residents of Christiania will have the opportunity to buy land below cost, and the rest of the land will be leased by the state. 
39. Beautiful tower on a drawbridge. 
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41. Locals celebrate St. Patrick's Day and swim in the canals. 
42. Fun! 
43. By the way, I had to rent a bicycle at the hotel. It’s strange that there are almost no rental shops in the city. A bicycle costs almost 1,500 rubles for a day. 
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