Freetown Christiania and Surrounds

The Church of Our Saviour features a corkscrew spire that coils upward to a golden globe topped by a statue of Christ. King Christian the fifth commissioned this design in the seventeenth century to give his new naval district a skyline…

The entrance to Freetown Christiania is marked by a wide, heavy gate of dark metal, topped with three yellow circles on a red background. In nineteen seventy-one, a group of squatters tore down the fence of this abandoned military barracks…

Loppen is a weathered wooden building inside the Freetown Christiania, identifiable by the hand-painted, multicolored signs and posters plastered across its exterior walls. It occupies a former military stable from the nineteenth century,…

Green George is a giant wooden troll constructed from hundreds of recycled shipping pallets. He sits crouched among the trees, clutching a net as if he is trying to catch something in the air. Thomas Dambo built this figure as the fiftieth…

Den Grå Hal is the enormous, rough-hewn brick building with a sprawling arched roof that dominates the western end of Christiania. It served as a riding stable for the Danish military until the nineteen seventies. When the neighborhood…

The Moon Fisher is a bronze sculpture of a man in a small boat, perpetually casting his net into the water of the harbor. Sculptor Erik Heide crafted this figure in nineteen ninety-seven. He wanted to capture the quiet, daily patience of…

A long, low-slung structure wrapped in corrugated metal sits here, distinguished by a faded mural of a bicycle and the constant hum of secondhand commerce. This is Den Grønne Genbrugs Hal. It began as an industrial garage in the industrial…

Dyssebroen is the small, unassuming stone bridge connecting the grounds of the Hirschsprung Collection to the wider trails of Fælledparken. It takes its name from the surrounding area, known as Dyssegård, which historically held burial…