The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen
Nyhavn
Everyone photographs the colours; I read the trade. This canal was a working wound cut into the city to bring ships to the doorstep of the king's new square.
The candy-coloured canal dug by Swedish prisoners in the 1670s as a shortcut for cargo into the city — once a rough sailors' quarter, now the postcard.
— Freja, The Historian
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