Found on Stroeget

Abstract

Stroeget is a long, narrow shopping street in Old Copenhagen. Actually, it comprises five separate streets joined together into one continuous path that winds its way from Raadhuspladsen (City Hall Square) to Kongens Nytorv. Its shops run the gamut from the upmarket Georg Jensen’s to Macdonald’s, from bookstores and bars to ladies’ fashions and fine chocolate, from florists and furniture to office equipment. Except for the occasional police car or delivery truck, Stroeget, like nearby Fiolstraede and Kobmagergade, is free of automobile traffic. The thick and turbulent current of pedestrians is sizeable. The presence of shoppers, tourists, drinkers, buskers, pantomimists, hurdy-gurdy men, and beggars make it one of the most popular and picturesque places in Copenhagen. The Old City itself is a maze of streets and little squares. Stroeget bisects it, and if the newcomer to Copenhagen were to wander just a few feet off Stroeget to take a quick look at the toy museum, for example, he might very well find himself lost.