Copenhagen - City of Denmark

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark. It is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager.Copenhagen is a major regional center of culture, business, media, and science. Copenhagen has repeatedly been recognized as one of the cities with the best quality of life.

It is also considered one of the world's most environmentally friendly cities with the water in the inner harbor being so clean that it can be used for swimming and 36 % of all citizens commuting to work by bicycle, every day bicycling a total 1.1 million km. Since the turn of the millennium Copenhagen has seen a strong urban and cultural development and has been described as a boom town.

This is partly due to massive investments in cultural facilities as well as infrastructure and a new wave of designers, chefs and architects.

From its humble origins as a fishing village to its heyday as the glittering capital of the Danish Empire, to its current position as one of the world's premier design capitals, the stories and characters of Copenhagen's history can be discovered in its sumptuous palaces, copper-roofed town houses and atmospheric cobbled squares. From the Viking Age there was a fishing village by the name of "Havn" at the site. Recent archeological finds indicate that by the 11th century, Copenhagen had already grown into a small town with a large estate, a church, a market, at least two wells and many smaller habitations spread over a fairly wide area.

This is due to massive investments in infrastructure as well as culture and wave of new successful Danish architects, designers and chefs. Between 1998 and 2008, lifestyle journalists wordwide have praised Copenhagen as a cool, well-functioning creative city .

Copenhagen has a wide array of museums of International standard. The National Museum, Nationalmuseet, is Denmark's largest museum of Archaeology and cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures alike. The National Gallery - "Statens Museum for Kunst" - is Denmark's national art museum and contains collections dating from 12th century and all the way up to present day artists. Among artists represented in the collections are Rubens, Rembrandt, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Matisse and Emil Nolde.

Thorvaldsens Museum is a single-artist museum dedicated to the oeuvre,of romantic Danish sculpturer Bertel Thorvaldsen who lived and worked in Rome.

Cisternerne is a small but different museum dedicated to modern glass art. It is located in some grotto-like former cisterns that come complete with Stalactites formed by the changing water levels.
The Ordrupgaard Museum is an art museum located just notth of Copenhagen in an old mansion with an extension by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid. It features 19th century French and Danish art and is particularly noted for its works by Paul Gaugin.

For free entertainment one can stroll along Stroget, especially between Nytorv and Hojbro Plads, which in the late afternoon and evening is a bit like an impromptu three-ring circus with musicians, magicians, jugglers and other street performers.

Copenhagen has a well-developed higher education system of public universities. It is a world-renowned research and teaching institution with campuses around the city and forms part of the International Alliance of Research Universities , which is a collaboration between international top universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and Berkeley. The University attracts app. It is repeatedly ranked as one of the best universities in Europe. At the Times Higher Education's QS World University Rankings 2008 list, it was ranked as fourth best in continental Europe. TheAcademic Ranking of World Universities 2008 placesd it as number 43 worldwide and 8th in Europe. A second all-round university in the Copenhagen area is Roskilde University located in Roskilde.

The Technical University of Denmark , Danmarks Tejniske Universitet, is located in Lyngby at the northern outskirts of Copenhagen. In 2008 it was ranked third highest in Europe on Times Higher Education's list of the most influential technical universities in the World.

Copenhagen Business School is an estimed and EQUIS accredited business school located on Frederiksberg.