About this experience
Let's imagine ourselves as the owners of the Galoshes of Happiness from the eponymous fairy tale, travel back in time, and take a walk through Andersen's Copenhagen. You will see that this is truly a magical city! Cozy courtyards and streets, castles and churches, bell towers and gingerbread towers, beautiful bridges across the sea canals, and graceful lanterns... Get ready to see a city steeped in the spirit of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales!
'It was in Copenhagen, on East Street, not far from the New Royal Square'... so begins the tale of the timeless storyteller Hans Christian Andersen — 'The Galoshes of Happiness'. 'These galoshes have one remarkable property: whoever puts them on can instantly be transported to any place and any era — wherever they wish — and thus immediately find happiness'...
- We will enter a small rose-covered old courtyard, where the amazing adventures of Kay and Gerda from the tale 'The Snow Queen' began, pass by the old house where a porcelain chimney sweep and shepherdess admired each other on the mantel above the fireplace, stand on the bridge across the sea canal where a paper boat carrying the steadfast tin soldier was washed ashore. The soldier was swallowed by a big fish in the canal, which was soon caught on a hook and ended up at the fish market where we will peek.
- We will ascend the steps of one of the four mansions of the Royal Amalienborg Palace, where two tailors tirelessly wove an airy-invisible fabric for the king's new garment.
- We will visit the bridge leading to Rosenborg Castle's gates, where on a cloudy and stormy evening, a delicate princess knocked, too sensitive to sleep on a pea.
- We will approach the scaffold in Old City Square, where the mute Eliza was sentenced to be burned at the stake, but eleven white swans extinguished the fire with their powerful wings and saved her. In the same square, they prepared to execute a soldier who dared to see the princess. The executioners did not know that the soldier had a miraculous tinderbox in his pocket.
- We will climb the Round Tower from 'The Tinderbox' and try to imagine the size of the dog described in this tale. 'What a monster! There's a dog sitting there, eyes as round as the Round Tower, and its wheels turn just right!'
- From the Tower along the quay, we will reach Nyhavn Canal, surrounded by gingerbread multi-colored houses where Andersen's characters lived. At one time, the storyteller himself lived in houses number 18, 20, and 67.
- We will visit the famous Copenhagen confectionery 'La Glace', a favorite spot of Hans Christian, and try the cakes and pastries he loved.
Copenhagen will touch everyone — even adults will happily immerse themselves in a wonderful fairytale world and marvel at the places that they read about in 'The Snow Queen', 'The Tinderbox', 'The Princess and the Pea', or 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' in their distant childhood.
