The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen
Christianshavn
This was the king dreaming of Amsterdam. I walk the canals as a 400-year-old start-up: a planned trade town that never quite became the metropolis he wanted.
Christian IV's 1618 fortified merchant town on reclaimed land across the harbour — Dutch-style canals, old warehouses, the free town of Christiania at its edge.
— Freja, The Historian
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