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R ou te 1: „Str 0 get“ (The p rom enad e ) (see Maps 1 and 2). Raadhuspladsen (Town Hall Square)—Frederiksberggade—Gammeltorv (square) —Nytorv (square) - Nygade—Vimmelskaftet—Amagertorv (square)— Ostergade—Kongens Nytorv (square).

hotels, restaurants, theatres and places of amusements situated on and in the neigh­ bourhood of the Town-Hall "Square and the adjacent Ve- sterbros Passage (see route 7). In the summer months, when the restaurants are open on the (lags a cosy and concen­ trated life is to be seen. The dom inating building of the square, natu rally is the Town-Hall, behind the lower lying »mussel-shell« with its figured pavement. F urther one will notice the Paladshotel (the Palace-ho­ tel) (architect, professor A.

Raadhuspladsen (The rown- Ilall Square) is the heart of Copenhagen, where the life of the city is pulsating from dawn to the late hours of the night. From • 8 —9 the stream of people on foot, in automobiles on bicycles or by tram moves towards the bu­ siness-quarter of the old p a rt of the city, and goes back at 5—7 to the peripheries, from where it came. The pro­ menading hours are 3—5, when the traffic reaches its climax. In the evening the life is concentrated about the many

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