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Carlsberg Brewery
4
MAP A6 • Gamle Carlsberg Vej
11 • 33 27 10 20 • Open 10am–5pm
daily • Adm (free for under-6s); free
with Copenhagen Card • www.
visitcarlsberg.dk
The Carlsberg Brewery offers an
exhibition and tour charting the
brewery’s history and its brands
(including a collection of over 16,000
beer bottles). Carlsberg is no longer
produced on the premises (only
Jacobsen Brewery survives), but the
rich history of brewing can still be
discovered here. Other parts of the
brewery have been developed into
a cultural quarter, Carlsberg Byen, Interior of the Cisternerne
with art galleries, an adventure park
Cisternerne – The
and the Fotografisk Center. 6
Cisterns
Zoologisk Have
5 MAP A6 • Søndermarken 25 • 33 21
MAP A5 • Roskildevej 32
93 10 • Open 11am–5pm Tue–Sun
• 72 20 02 00 • Open Apr–May & • Closed Dec–Feb • Adm; free for
Sep: 10am–5pm Mon–Fri, 10am–6pm under-18s • www.cisternerne.dk
Sat–Sun; Jun & last 2 weeks of Aug: This candlelit glass space features
10am–6pm daily; Jul & first 2 weeks exhibits by artists like Per Kirkeby
of Aug: 10am–8pm daily; Oct– Mar: and Robert Jacobsen. Set inside the
10am–4pm daily (until 5pm Oct) cave-like water cistern of an old
• Adm; free with Copenhagen Card supply plant, it lies beneath the
• www.zoo.dk lawns of Frederiksberg Have and
Open 365 days a year, this zoo makes has thin stalactites on the ceiling.
for a lovely day out. Here you will
Radisson Blu Royal
find a wide variety of animals, from 7
tigers to monkeys (including tiny, Hotel
endan gered Golden Lion Tamarins). This 20-storey tower-block hotel,
Make sure you visit the Arctic Ring designed by architect Arne Jacobsen,
exhibit, which gives you a unique represents the cutting-edge design
opportunity to get closer to the of the 1950s, and is littered with
magnificent polar bears, North his iconic Egg and Swan chairs
Atlantic birds and seals. (see p116).

A tiger relaxes in the snow at Zoologisk Have

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