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The Illum Department Store is located on the corner of Købmagergade and Strøget. The Arnold Busch chain of book stores has a two-storey flagship store at the Round Tower. International brands and chains with flagship stores in the street include Esprit , Abercrombie & Fitch , Vans and Diesel .
Strøget (Danish pronunciation: [ˈstʁʌjˀð̩]) is a pedestrian, car-free shopping area in Copenhagen, Denmark. This popular tourist attraction in the centre of town is one of the longest pedestrian shopping streets in Europe [ 1 ] at 1.1 km. [ 2 ] Located at the centre of the old city of Copenhagen, it has long been one of the most high ...
The shops along the street are generally smaller and more eclectic than the flagship stores on neighbouring Strøget. It is dominated by art galleries and antique shops. [ 1 ] It is known for its rich gay culture with LGBT citizens, shops, bars, restaurants and coffeehouses.
Østergade 13 is a Historicist building complex situated on the shopping street Strøget in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally two separate 18th-century buildings, three and four bays wide, respectively, Østergade 13 owes its current appearance to a renovation in 1856. Kunstforeningen was also based in the building from 1834 to 1854.
Amagertorv depicted by J. Rach and H. H. Eegberg in 1749, featuring a combination of 17th- and 18th-century buildings. Amagertorv dates back to the Middle Ages when Copenhagen was a small fishing village called Havn, the site was the main corridor between the village and the beach.
Peder Madsens Gang ("Peder Madsen's Corridor"), a narrow alley with tenements for the very poor, was for centuries located at the site where Ny Østergade runs today. It took its name after Peder Madsen, a local representative and alderman of the Community Representative's Guild, who constructed some of the buildings.
Bremerholm is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark.It extends south from the major shopping street Strøget to Holmens Kanal.Together with Kristen Bernikows Gade, its extension to the north, it forms one of only two places where car traffic crosses pedestrianized Strøget on its way from Kongens Nytorv to the City Hall Square, the other being at Gammeltorv-Nytorv.
From 2001 to 2002, Søndergade and Skt. Clemens Square were renovated and Ryesgade was closed off to car traffic, thus creating a 750 meters long pedestrian street known as Strøget. Today, Strøget has about 47,000 visitors on a daily basis and some 14 million visitors annually, placing it among the busiest commercial streets in Denmark. [2]