TorvehallerneKBH
Twin glass-and-zinc food halls with an open-air lane of produce and flowers between them.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Torvehallerne in Copenhagen follows the square beneath it through two very different histories: a wholesale vegetable market that fed the city's kitchens from 1889 until it moved away in 1958, and the 1968 renaming of the same ground to Israels Plads, marking the night Danes ferried nearly seven thousand Jewish neighbors to safety in Sweden. It then picks up the site's decade as a plain parking lot, and a 1997 newspaper opinion piece by a novelist and an architect that set off a long campaign to bring the market back. Stand among the produce stalls and flower sellers today, on ground that has carried both stories at once.
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