Elephant Gate and Tower

This guide to the Elephant Gate and Tower in Copenhagen traces Carl Jacobsen's break from his father, J. C. Jacobsen, over how to brew Carlsberg beer, and the rival brewhouse he built next door in 1901. It follows the four granite elephants he raised at its gate, each carrying the initial of one of his surviving children, and the Roman sculpture that inspired them. Listen for what the little tower balanced on their backs was actually built to do.