Hej / God dag
How locals say hello in Copenhagen
Summer (June–August) for long daylight hours
Copenhagen is the cycling capital of the world — 62% of residents cycle to work daily. Rent a bike on day one.
A fishing settlement called Havn existed on this strait between Denmark and Sweden from around 1000 CE, growing rich on the herring trade. In 1167, Bishop Absalon built a fort on the island of Slotsholmen to protect it from pirates — the act traditionally considered Copenhagen's founding. Denmark's capital since 1443, it was besieged, bombed by the British in 1807, and occupied by Nazi Germany in WWII, yet its centuries-old waterfront remains remarkably intact.
Copenhagen's Noma restaurant has been rated the world's best restaurant four times — the city pioneered New Nordic cuisine.
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