Copentell is a Danish tour company that offers guided city walks in Copenhagen, as well as publishes podcasts and videos about culture and history.

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The gates to the dark history of Copenhagen will open once again.

On this walking tour, we will take a journey back in time to some of the most dramatic, tragic, and dark events in the History of Danish Capitals. In the company of our historian Rune Edberg, we will visit the central locations in the old medieval part of the city center. From Swedish besiege and British bombardments to witch burnings and executions.

Copenhagen was a much smaller City than today, enclosed and claustrophobic behind high city walls and with sparse and primitive sanitary conditions which became a threat to its inhabitants, when the Plague- Epidemic hit in 1711, killing one-third of Copenhagen's inhabitants. The Dark part of the history of Copenhagen includes poverty and poor housing which played its part in the bad living conditions of the majority of the population. Other dramatic stories and events told on this tour include the Cholera epidemic of 1853 and the city fires of 1728 and 1795, which have played a central part in shaping the current look and architecture of Copenhagen's City Centre. We will also pass by some of the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's old addresses and the place, where the world-famous Danish Brewery Carlsberg was founded.

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