Copenhagen’s medieval area (old downtown) is a set of pedestrian streets in the triangle formed by the City Hall Square West, Kongens Nytorv Station Nørreport east and north.
The origin of what is now known as Copenhagen is situated at the beginning of the eleventh century, a small fishing settlement known simply as havn (port). Later this port acquired greater significance since the commercial standpoint, and renamed Købmandshavn: ‘Bay of merchants’, a name which finally resulted in Kobenhavn.
Gradually the city grew around the port, especially under the rule of Absalon, bishop of Roskilde. And at the end of the sixteenth century as Copenhagen is a city rich and powerful.
Throughout its history, Copenhagen has suffered several devastating flaming and various attacks that partially destroyed the city. Not preserved almost medieval buildings, but of later times.
The old center of Copenhagen is still the heart of the city and retains the spirit of their origins: Bay merchants.
The five streets running from the Town Hall Square to Kongens Nytorv Stroget are called (is said to be the longest pedestrian street in the world): Frederiks berggade, Nygade, Vimmelskaftet, Amagertorv and Ostergade. Stroget is one of the busiest areas of the city. It is full of shops and establishments of all kinds.
Nearby is the church Amagertorv Helligaandskirken (Holy Ghost Church), the only building that remains of the medieval and the church of St. Nicholas (Skt. Nicolaj Kirke) In Kongens Nytorv is in the Royal Theater. And very near there Pistolstrade, a maze of buildings beautifully restored eighteenth century.
Climbing towards the northern summit (Nørreport Station) from the Town Hall Square we will find the Cathedral: Vor Frue Kirke (Cathedral of Our Lady, the nineteenth century)
Beside the Cathedral is the University and the Latin Quarter, a neighborhood with more than 500 years old built around the University of Copenhagen. It is called the Latin Quarter because students from the Middle Ages used Latin. It is an area of small streets, filled with bookstores, clothing stores and music and jazz clubs.
If we continue east on Kannikestrade Krystalgade or arrived at the Trinity Church (Trinitatis Kirke) and the Round Tower, Rundetaarn, a former seventeenth century observatory.
