Self-guided walking tour
Copenhagen Walking Tour: Frederiksstaden to the Little Mermaid (about 4.5 hours, 9 stops)
9 stops in walking order through Copenhagen, from Amalienborg to Nyboder: 3.6 km on foot, about 43 min of walking, 4 h 20 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Frederiksstaden to the Little Mermaid”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 4 h 20 min
- Distance
- 3.6 km
- Walking
- 43 min
- Stops
- 9
The stops, in walking order
Amalienborg
The official residence of Denmark’s monarch and royal family, formed by matching palaces around an octagonal courtyard.
4 min walk · 300 m
Marmorkirken
An Evangelical Lutheran parish church celebrated for its Rococo architecture and immense dome.
3 min walk · 260 m
Medicinsk Museion
Medicinsk Museion occupies a building designed by Peter Meyn, with a former surgical auditorium as its principal exhibition room.
2 min walk · 170 m
Designmuseum Danmark
Designmuseum Danmark presents Danish and international design, crafts, and porcelain in a former Frederiks Hospital adapted for museum use.
5 min walk · 410 m
Den Kongelige Afstøbningssamling
A museum of plaster casts housed in Vestindisk Pakhus.
5 min walk · 450 m
Gefionspringvandet
The Gefion Fountain is a harbour-front monument showing the Norse goddess Gefjon driving oxen as they pull a plough.
6 min walk · 480 m
Den lille Havfrue
A bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, showing a mermaid becoming human on a rock beside the water at Copenhagen’s Langelinie promenade.
7 min walk · 600 m
Kastellet
A remarkably preserved citadel arranged as a pentagonal fortress with corner bastions.
12 min walk · 960 m
Nyboder
A historic residential district built as naval barracks for sailors, service personnel, and their families.
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