Copenhagen

THE CAPITAL OF DENMARK. PHY S IOGNOMY O F CO PENHAGEN .

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OPENHAGEN is not one of those cities which impress by their luxurious splendour. But a p ­ proach it sailing up the lovely Sound, and see it lying before you , its beautiful outline b ro ­ ken by the g reat dom e of the F rederick’s Church

and all the many spires and towers, and you are sure to think it charm ing. O r enter it from the fine vaulted hall of the p rin ­ cipal railway-station, preferably by night, when you at once find yourself in the crowd of the V esterbro’s Passage, with the electric lights of the "T ivo li“ garden on one side and those of the “V ariétés“ on the other, and you get the impression of a lively, fascinating capital. C openhagen has a charm of its own, a characteristic, picturesque beauty, a refined, old-fashio­ ned homeliness, m ore attractive than the splendid m onotony of m any of the g reat m odern cities. Even the stranger soon discovers, that C openhagen consists of an old and a m odern part, although the difference between them is g radually disappearing. Boulevards skirt the old town, replacing the ram parts and the picturesque moats, whose still waters reflected the foliage of fine old trees. The “Kastei“ near “L angelinie“ is the last rem n an t of the ram parts; the beautiful public parks along the Boulevards — the “Ø stre A n læ g “, the “Ø rsteds P a rk “, the “Botanic G a rd en s“ and the “Aborre

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