The adventures of the Kudablin participant in Copenhagen. Part I

In the Kudablin project, we send completely different people on traveling at our expense! Nikolai Egorov visited Copenhagen: climbed onto one of the most dangerous viewing platforms of the city, tried a dozen varieties of Danish beer and felt like a local resident, having bathed in the city fountain. Read more – in his report!

I decided to get to the hotel in the city center on foot from the Kustrup airport, and so I stomped with a bag and a backpack for an hour and a half. Of course, I pursued good goals – to see the areas and houses on the way – I thought, but in fact I clamped 5 euros to buy a metro ticket in the third zone.

When I still leaned to the island of Christianhavn, in the sky I saw a spiral candy on a stick. I wiped my eyes and realized that this is a tower, but what kind of tower – figs you will understand. The bag with a backpack was stinging shoulders, the heat was +30, I put the hut for sure to walk to this tower and went on.

I will show you a little this mysterious tower – it is in the background. I am considering a city with a round tower, and in the foreground-the art center named after me, that is, Nikolai, the former church of St. Nikolai.

In general, there are so many towers in Copenhagen that you can lose your head a little when you rotate it in all directions.

Looking a little forward – here you need to climb a height of 80 meters along a corkscrew staircase, where the staircase ends with a narrow dead end. And no nets, behind the railing at the level of my navel – an open airspace. It was even a little scary at the narrow end.

Here she is, a beauty, the tower of the thief Frelsers Kirke, or the Church of the Savior. The church began to be built at the end of the 17th century, and in the middle of the 18th century the Danish king opened this very tower with a spire. I proceeded a lot of internal screw stairs in cult structures, but the temple tower rose for the first time along the outer screw staircase.

The entrance is not the cheapest – 45 Danish crowns, or about 7 euros. But believe me, it’s worth it, especially in good weather! All analogue, no elevators, to the staircase of the tower we climb through the premises of the temple, here is the exposition of the former angels of the temple interior.

The clock mechanism with the Danish crown – since 1699, this mechanism ticks and rotates the arrows on the tower.

Bell. As Wikipedia writes, the Savior Church has the largest Carillon in Northern Europe, which plays melodies every hour from morning to midnight. Carillon is a musical instrument, through a clock mechanism, forcing a number of bells to play a melody. It seems that there was more than an hour on the tower, but I did not hear the melody. Probably only eyes and touch worked on an open staircase.

Wow, I go out onto the stairs, she has smooth steps sheathed with copper. It is amazing that it is open to visitors almost all year round. After snow and rain, it can be quite dangerous.

In December, the tower was opened for visitors only 1, 6, 8, 12 or 15. It does not work in January and February.

I put dominos from nearby buildings in the frame and rise above, there were relatively few people.

Bright yellow railing is very pretty and royal.

Leaning at the railing is scary. Damn, how is the ubiquitous tradition to surround everything with a net that the pigeons will be scattered, especially with a small cell, when you can’t stick the camera lens there. Here – just like in the 19th century, climbed and all responsibility on you. If a fool is not an affection. And it’s great, such an air effect!

Here is the very edge of the stairs. My male body did not even allow me to get out. I even felt it with my hand around the corner – he narrows further. Only a cat will probably get to the very end.

Now let’s admire the views.

Read the second part of the report here.

The author of the text and photo: Nikolai Egorov