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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 friary consisted at its height of a church, a refectory, a great hall which was used on many occasions for important state meetings and meetings of the provincial which governed Franciscan monasteries in Denmark. The friary was dissolved in 1530 but the church tower was a visible part of the city skyline as late as 1596.
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.
Ryesgade is part of the 750 meters long pedestrian zone Strøget which runs from Aarhus Central Station to Aarhus Cathedral, consisting of the streets Søndergade, St. Clemens Street and Ryesgade. Strøget has about 47,000 visitors each day and some 14 million visitors annually, placing it among the busiest commercial streets in Denmark. [2]
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Detail from Gedde's map of Copenhagen showing Læderstræde in the 1750s . Læderstræde originally continued all the way to Rådhusstræde where it turned into Farvergade. The first part of the name Læderstræde does not refer to leather (Danish: læder), as the modern name would suggest, but to Ladbro, a jetty which projected from Copenhagen's first harbor at Gammel Stran
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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.