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Strædet (literally 'The Alley') is the colloquial name of a popular shopping and café street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Højbro Plads on Strøget at its eastern end with Regnbuepladsen next to City Hall to the west. The official street names are Læderstræde (until Hyskenstræde), Kompagnistræde (until Gåsestræde) and ...
The main street is bound on the west by City Hall Square (Danish: Rådhuspladsen), the central town square by Copenhagen City Hall, and on the east by Kongens Nytorv ("The King's New Square"), another large square at the other end. But the Strøget area is actually a collection of streets that spread out from this central thoroughfare.
The street name refers to Pilegården, a farm which was located at the site in the Middle Ages. [1] Pilegårde is first mentioned in 1419 and was divided into several smaller properties in 1579. [2] In the 16th century, Copenhagen's stud farm (Københavns Avlsgård), where the city's
"New East Street") is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking the Østergade section of the pedestrian street Strøget in the south with Christian IX's gade in the northwest. Together with the intersecting streets Grønnegade and Store Regnegade, its forms part of Copenhagen's most exclusive shopping districts.
The street was extended when Copenhagen's Western Rampart was removed in the second half of the 19th century. Copenhagen Waterworks was built at the far end of the street in 1859. Am small park, Aborreparken, was established between the waterworks, Studiestræde, H. C. Andersens Boulevard and Vester Farimagsgade in 1886.
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Adelgade (lit. "Nobility Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark.It runs from Gothersgade in the south to Sankt Pauls Plads with St. Paul's Church in the north. The first half of the street is dominated by modern buildings while its last section passes through the Nyboder district.
aa is treated like å in alphabetical sorting, not like two adjacent letters a , meaning that while a is the first letter of the alphabet, aa is the last. In Norwegian (but not in Danish), this rule does not apply to non-Scandinavian names, so a modern atlas would list the German city of Aachen under a , but list the Danish town of Aabenraa ...