Copenhagen, Denmark

Two days in Copenhagen in 2016, walking the canals from early morning until the long Scandinavian summer evening. The city is flat, built around water and runs on bicycles. It’s easy to cover a lot on foot, from the harbor at Nyhavn to the palace squares and the green ramparts at the edge of the old city.

What’s in the gallery

Nyhavn’s colored houses and wooden ships, once at sunset and again in the morning. Canal tour boats under old stone bridges, and the Old Stock Exchange with its twisted dragon-tail spire, photographed eight years before fire brought it down in 2024. A Royal Life Guard on duty at Amalienborg and the dome of the Marble Church. The windmill and St. Alban’s Church at Kastellet, quiet lakes, rows of parked bikes, and graffiti artists at work.

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Red-brick building with green copper roofs reflected in a Copenhagen canal
Canal tour boat full of passengers heading under a stone bridge in Copenhagen
Pink and blue façade of the Palads cinema in central Copenhagen
Man reading posters beside a graffiti wall and a parked bicycle
Lily pads covering a park lake, an ornate building behind the trees
Old Stock Exchange (Børsen) and Christiansborg tower over the canal at dusk
Graffiti artist spray-painting a large pink and blue mural
Red-brick corner building with copper-topped towers in Copenhagen
Nyhavn’s colorful houses and wooden ships reflected in the canal at sunset
University of Copenhagen main building with bronze busts along a cobbled square
Copenhagen spires silhouetted against an orange sunset
Royal Life Guard marching across the patterned cobblestones at Amalienborg Palace
Dome of Frederik’s Church (the Marble Church) at the end of a street at sunset
Green copper spire of St. Nicholas Church rising above a Copenhagen street
Tall ships moored along Nyhavn behind an iron railing
Rows of bicycles parked along a cobbled, tree-lined street
Red house among trees reflected in a still lake in Copenhagen
Church spire and red buildings across a reed-lined lake
Cyclist riding past a yellow 18th-century building in Copenhagen
St. Alban’s Church beside the grass ramparts of Kastellet
Red windmill on the ramparts of Kastellet
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