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Walks in Holmen.

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

The former Danish Royal Navy island — the architecture school in the shipbuilding sheds, the Opera House, the old masting crane.

Nearby

Other walks close to Holmen.

Sorted by distance from the start of holmen and nyholm: navy, architecture school, opera house. Good for stitching together a longer day.

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.

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

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