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Walks in Ørestad.
One editor-picked walk through Ørestad, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.
Nearby
Other walks close to Ørestad.
Sorted by distance from the start of ørestad architecture trail: big's mile. Good for stitching together a longer day.
waterfrontleafy3.5 km · 90 min· Claude-drafted
Islands Brygge: Havnebadet to Sluseholmen — the summer swim walk
The 2002 wooden harbour bath that proved Copenhagen's water was swimmable, and the canal-and-lock pool to the south.
quirkyheritage2.5 km · 90 min· Claude-drafted
Christiania: the 1971 freetown on its own terms
The autonomous commune on the former military barracks — architecture, history, the lake, and a paved-over Pusher Street.
canalheritage3 km · 90 min· Claude-drafted
Christianshavn: the canal district and the spiral spire
Christian IV's seventeenth-century Dutch-style canal town, with a golden spire you can climb.
post-industrialarchitecture3 km · 90 min· Claude-drafted
Holmen and Nyholm: navy, architecture school, opera house
The former Danish Royal Navy island — the architecture school in the shipbuilding sheds, the Opera House, the old masting crane.