Subscribe to our newsletter. That may be an exaggeration, but it's an understandable display of hyperbole in a part of Europe where joie de vivre is occasionally smothered under a blanket of earnestness. This is a city where the Queen designs opera costumes, homosexual marriages have been legal for 10 years, the government tolerates hippie squatters on military land, and jazz is the lingua franca of the musical scene.
Tourist attractions range from the world's oldest amusement park to royal palaces.
On the museum scene, you can choose anything from a museum of the Danish Resistance to a museum of erotica. Shopping offers a plethora of opportunities, from amber trinkets to Royal Copenhagen Porcelain or Georg Jensen silver to Danish modern furniture. And when you're hungry from looking at countless empty Flora Danica plates, you can head for one of Copenhagen's more than 2,000 restaurants to enjoy sm rrebrod with cold Tuborg beer or a five-course French feast. If you're traveling to Copenhagen from North America or Britain, take the overnight DFDS Seaways ferry from Harwich, England to Esbjerg, then catch a train or drive across Jutland and Funen to Copenhagen. The train journey between Esbjerg and Copenhagen is only about three hours.