Copenhagen City Hall
   Photo: Copenhagen city hall

Copenhagen City Hall - administration building, which hosts the meeting of the Municipal Council and the mayor's office was located in Copenhagen. The building of the town hall was built in 1479, but due to the construction of urban fire burned to the ground twice - in 1728 and 1795. The current town hall, which we can see today, was built in 1893-1905 years. The building was designed by the famous Danish architect Martin Nyurop style "Northern Art Nouveau" in the likeness of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy.

Fully all the town hall is built of red brick on the facade of buildings immortalized in gold Bishop Absalon - the founder of Copenhagen. The height of the clock tower of the modern town hall is 106, 5 meters. In 1955, in the Town Hall premises established ultra-precise clocks, they show the rising and setting of the sun, the length of the days and nights, world clock for any city, phases of the moon, the church calendar, the scheme motion of the planets around the sun and sky map over Denmark. The author of the design was a talented mechanic, a member of the Danish Astronomical Society Jens Olsen, he is forty years of his life dedicated to the creation of a mechanism of unique watches.

Today, indoor hall hold meetings of the Municipal Council and the City Hall, also held a variety of exhibitions and city cultural events. Near Copenhagen City Hall is the central railway station and entertainment center "Tivoli".

Copenhagen Town Hall is a popular tourist attraction in Denmark, which is visited throughout the year many tourists from around the world.

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