Værnedamsvej - a street with a Parisian flair

Værnedamsvej is a small street on the municipal boundary between Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. The street stretches over 190 meters and connects Gammel Kongevej with the junction where Vesterbrogade and Frederiksberg Allé meet. The name comes from Werner Damm (d. 1762), who in the 1730s ran a popular eatery in the street. The street was formerly known for its many butcher shops, but today there is only one. Instead there are many small shops and cafés, and the street currently has a Parisian flair. Here the shops has moved out on the streets for a bit of celebration.

Falkoner Allé

Falkoner Allé is is a street in Frederiksberg, connecting Åboulevard and Gammel Kongevej and built around 1670. This street is known for it running past Frederiksberg Centre, Frederiksberg metro station and the head office of McDonalds. -RS

Time to skate

With the early winter in Copenhagen, people has rushed to dust off their old skates and find places to use them. As the lakes are still unsafe to use, the answer is the artificial and free public skating rings, that has been built at some of the squares. This one is just in front of the park Frederiksberg Garden and it's a popular one, so if you want to be able to move at speed here, you need to be here early.

Number 42A

On Frederiksberg Allé, where I showed you a water sprout, I also found this door. Doors in this area tend to be very stylish with intricate stone carvings, carved wood and many colours.

Lion

At St Thomas's Square at the end of Frederiksberg Allé are two monuments to commemorate the foundation of the city of Frederiksberg. On all four sides of the monuments are these great copper lions. Frederiksberg is a municipality that is surrounded by the municipality of Copenhagen. It's the smallest municipality areawise in Denmark and has a total population of 95.000. It started out as a farming town in June 2, 1651 when King Frederik III gave 20 Danish-Dutch families the right to settle here. When a Royal Palace was build on top of Valby Hill the town started to grow as a merchant town, and now you'll have to look in futile for any farms in this area. It's considered a upper class area, especially among its inhabitants.

Water spout

On a building in Frederiksberg Allé this strange water spout can be found. It's on a building called Sans Souci, a building build in the beginning of the 20th Century. The name is older though; here was a country home build in 1798 by master builder J M Quist who gave it the name of Sans Souci. A nearby restaurant also keeps the name alive.

Frederiksberg Allé have been called the Champs Elysees of Copenhagen, and the avenue do bear a kind of resemblance with that great place; tall trees line the strait broad street and the buildings from 1900 are rather nice. It's a fashionable (and expensive) address to have, but it's got very few shops, very little traffic and only a couple of café's to visit. Champs Elysees it's not, but I think it's a nice street anyway.