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Walks in Frederiksstaden.

One editor-picked walk through Frederiksstaden, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.

Nyhavn's painted townhouses, the changing of the guard, and the dome at the end of the axis.

Nearby

Other walks close to Frederiksstaden.

Sorted by distance from the start of nyhavn and amalienborg: the postcard and the working palace. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Christian IV's 1631 sailors' housing, still residential, in the iconic yellow.

The island of Danish state — parliament, supreme court, the ruined 1620 stock exchange after the 2024 fire, and the harbour library.

The autonomous commune on the former military barracks — architecture, history, the lake, and a paved-over Pusher Street.

Christian IV's seventeenth-century Dutch-style canal town, with a golden spire you can climb.