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Copenhagen walk - Kastrup Metro Station to Ørsted Hus (about 26km long)

Note this is a work in progress - errors to be corrected and some titles still to be added

The walk, about 26km long, was devised & led on 5th July 2017 by my son Benjamin Brink Allsopp

The Route - Kastrup Metro Station, Kastrup Yacht Harbour, Aquarium, Amager Strand Park, Amager Strandvej (detour into Sundbysejlforening to see a design by Bjarke Ingels), cross KL Øvermarkens (view of  Copenhagen's Spires), through Rosengang (allotments) to outer Fortress Moat, Amager Bakke (garbage incinerator and ski slope), Christiania Lakes, House Boat community, Naval Command Centre, Opera House, cross from Christianshavn over new retractable cycle & pedestrian bridge to Nyhavn, Sante Annae Plads, Amalienborg Slot (Royal Residence), along harbour to St Albans English Church & Gefion, around Kastellet Ramparts, Little Mermaid, Polar Bear, larger Mermaid, Cruise liners, south along PakhusKai, Østerport Station, Østre Anlæg Park, Kongens Have (Rosenborg Slot), Medieval City (Kultoret Square), up Fiolstræde to Skindergade, Israels Plads, Ørstedsparken, Ørsted Hus.

1  Kastrup Metro Station. The Metro has no onboard drivers. Note the platform doors coinciding with the train doors.
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4  The part of the Øresund crossing (from Denmark to Sweden) close to Copenhagen Airport is an immersed tunnel to avoid obstruction to airplanes
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6  Den Blå Planet - National Aquarium Denmark
7  zoomed into cable stayed main bridge span (491m) of the Øresund crossing between Denmark & Sweden
8  offshore wind turbines for electricity generation
9 water bags for irrigating trees planted along the shoreline
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14 a glimpse of the bridge portion of the Øresund crossing. Children in front getting acquainted with the sea?
15 presumably a platform for sunbathers & swimmers?
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18  The motorway is on the top surface of the bridge. Trains run below the car decks.
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20 notes about Amager Strand
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24  circus has apparently reached town?

25 Amager Bakke -Sloping structure to left is a waste disposal incineration plant. The slope is used for Ski / winter sports.
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36  Sundbysejlforening

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38 rolling wooden platforms above & around facilities can be walked / climbed on
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42  Vor Frelsers Kirke (spiral staircase runs around the exterior of the spire)
43  Rådhus (City Hall - clock tower & spire only seen here) - to left.
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45  Sankt Nikolaj Kirke (now a Contemporary Art Centre)
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48 allotment houses slept in during summer

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51 old aircraft hanger
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53 Marmorkirken (The Marble Church seen from afar)
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60 Cruise Liners in distance to left moored on Langeliniekaj

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62 old dry dock?
63 Copenhagen Opera House on the island of Holmen
64   Marmorkirken - Marble Church - design based on St Peter's Basilica in Rome.  Also known as Frederikskirken
65 Skuespilhuset - Theatre
66  180m long Inner Harbour Bridge for cyclists and pedestrians. Part of bridge can retract to allow the passage of taller boats
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68 Skuespilhuset - Theatre to right
69  Copenhagen Opera House on the island of Holmen
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75  one end of 180m long Inner Harbour Bridge for cyclists and pedestrians. Part of bridge can retract to allow the passage of taller boats
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79  side view of 180m long Inner Harbour Bridge for cyclists and pedestrians. Part of bridge can retract to allow the passage of taller boats
80  Inderhavnen (inner harbour?) seen from retractable pedestrian and cycle bridge
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82 Sankt Anna Plads - we lived in this street, with our then 4 children, when working in Christiani & Nielsen's head office from May 1967 to January 1968 (see memoir)
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85  Amalienborg Slot (Marmorkirken seen between palace residences)

86  Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in courtyard of Amalienborg Slot

87 view of Copenhagen Opera House on the island of Holmen seen across the water from Amalienborg Slot

88  Marmorkirken behind, Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in front and three of the four palaces around Amalienborg Slot

89  Copenhagen Opera House on the island of Holmen seen across the water

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91  The Masting Crane built around 1750 in the Holmen Naval Base

92  Replica of Michelangelo's statue of David on Langelinie Promenade

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94 St Albans spire (the English Church)

95 Gefion Fountain - the mythical goddess Geffion turned her four sons into oxen and took to ploughing up parts of Sweden for various alleged purposes

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100 entering Kastellet (Citadel) - a fortress was first built on this site in 1626 - it became headquarters of the German occupying forces in World war II
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103 another view of the Geffion Fountain with the The Masting Crane seen behind
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105 another view of St Albans Church
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110 Windmill in the Fortress grounds
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117 statue of polar bear with cubs
118 missed the little mermaid - found this mermaid statue instead
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123 are the following sculptures the Genetically Modified Paradise by Bjørn Nørgaard?
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130 Østerport railway station
131 Østerport railway station affected by Metro extension works
132 Østre Anlæg (a park)
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146 Ørsted Hus once the head office of Christiani & Nielsen a Danish construction company working worldwide. I worked for a short period in this office - see Memoir
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