Amusement park
Tivoli Gardens
Pleasure garden of fairy-tale pavilions, fireworks and a century-old wooden roller coaster.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen follows the showman Georg Carstensen, who in 1843 persuaded King Christian VIII to open a pleasure garden as a distraction from the political unrest sweeping Europe. It traces his flamboyant rise, famous for owning more than a hundred waistcoats, and the war he marched off to fight in 1848 that cost him his position. The wooden roller coaster still running today dates to 1914, one of the oldest of its kind anywhere.
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