Amaliehaven

This guide to Amaliehaven in Copenhagen traces the harborside garden's past as Larsen's Plads, the shipyard-turned-emigration quay where Scandinavians boarded steamships for America between 1879 and 1935. It follows the site's decades as bare cargo ground before shipping magnate Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller stepped in, and the Belgian and Italian artists he commissioned to remake it. Listen for how a place built for goodbyes came to hold cherry trees and a fountain instead.