Merchants, Monarchs & Myths of Copenhagen with mobile app

Stand where a warrior bishop built a fortress and accidentally founded a capital city.

Learn why three branches of Danish power share one roof — and why this is the third building to stand here.

See a Danish king dressed as a Roman emperor on Scandinavia's oldest equestrian statue.

Trace how a gritty sailors' canal dug by prisoners of war became Copenhagen's most photographed street.

Look up at the modest rented room where a poor storyteller wrote fairy tales the world never forgot.

Step onto a stage that floats over the harbour, blending drama with modern design

Discover four identical palaces built for nobles that became the royal residence by accident after a fire.

Uncover why a small Danish trading company that once smuggled England's tea commissioned this statue.

Follow the saga of a church left unfinished for one hundred and fifty years until a beer magnate paid the bill. Notice a wooden altar disguised as marble and a stonemason's vase carved with the names of workers who died building it.

Encounter the Norse goddess whose one-night plowing session tore Zealand from Sweden and created Denmark.

Step inside the only Anglican church in Denmark, built by British expats and opened by a Danish-born princess.

Meet a French-born royal who got an anchor tattoo, walked Copenhagen without a chaperone, and championed sailors' widows.

Decode the diplomatic trade that swapped Caribbean islands for American recognition of Denmark's Arctic claim. Hear how a captain chose to burn with his ship so the rest of the Danish fleet could escape.

Walk along a star-shaped fortress built from the hard lesson of a devastating Swedish siege.

See why Copenhagen's smallest statue draws its biggest crowds — and why she's been beheaded twice.

Walk through geometry designed to starve, trap, and repel invading armies