Kongens Nytorv
Baroque royal square with a bronze equestrian king at its center and a leafy circular garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen starts with an easily missed detail on its equestrian statue: a crouched, naked figure pinned under the horse's raised hoof. It traces back to 1688, when French sculptor Abraham-Cesar Lamoureux was ordered to cast King Christian the Fifth, in Roman dress, rearing on a horse made of soft gilded lead that would not hold its own weight. The guide also covers the square's earlier life as a garbage-strewn rampart the Danes called Hallandsasen, before the king had it paved into his royal centerpiece in 1670. Look for the small crouched figure at the statue's base as you take in the square.
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