1 - The Little Mermaid - The Hans Christian Andersen's story about a mermaid who fell in love with a prince.
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2 - School children were drawing the mermaid the morning I was there.
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3 - The Stork Fountain on the Strøget. The Storks are in fact herons.
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4 - Entertainers on the Strøget.
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5 - The Strøget is a pedestrian walkway where the best and most expensive stores are next to cheap tourist shops.
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6 - You can't go too far in Denmark without coming across Hans Christian Andersen.
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7 - Town Hall -
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8 - Town Hall -
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9 - Town Hall or Københavns Rådhus - The city hall housing the local city administration built 1892-1905.
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10 - Town Hall -
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11 - I took this picture because of the Carlsberg sign - PROBABLY THE BEST BEER IN TOWN.
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13 - Christiansborg Palace -
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14 - Christiansborg Palace -
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15 - Skt. Albans Kirke and the Gefion Fountain
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16 - Gefion Fountain - In an ancient legend, Gefion was the goddess who ploughed the island of Zealand out of Sweden.
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17 - The Swedish king Gylfe offered Gefion as much land as she was capable of ploughing within one day and night.
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18 - She transformed her four sons into powerful oxen and had them plough the land and pulled it into the sea.
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19 - Skt. Albans Kirke - An Anglican (Episcopal) church erected 1887 in the British gothic style.
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20 - Skt. Albans Kirke -
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