Kaloshi of Happiness – Andersen Copenhagen

Let’s imagine ourselves masters of the kalosh of happiness, travel back in time and take a tour of Andersen’s Copenhagen.

Copenhagen is a truly fabulous city! Cozy courtyards and streets, castles and churches, bell towers and turrets, bridges across sea canals and lanterns, the whole city is imbued with the spirit of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. We will go into a small old courtyard with roses, because it was here that the amazing adventures of Kai and Gerda began from the fairy tale “The Snow Queen”, we will pass by the old house where porcelain chimney sweepers and a shepherd admired each other on the shelf above the fireplace, we will stand on the bridge over the sea channel, into which the gutter carried a boat out of paper in which a resistant tin soldier floated. In the canal, the soldier swallowed a large fish, which soon got hooked and ended up in the fish market.

Climb the steps of one of the four mansions of the royal palace of Amalienborg, where two tailors weaved weightless/invisible material for the king’s new dress day and night.

We will go to the bridge leading to the gates of Rosenborg Castle, in which the princess knocked at night on a cloudy, inclement evening, too tender to sleep on a pea.

We approach the scaffold on the Old Town Square, where the silent Eliza was sentenced to be burned at the stake, but eleven white swans extinguished the fire with their mighty wings and saved her. On the same square prepared to execute a soldier who dared to see the princess. The executioners did not know that the soldier had a wonderful fire in his pocket.

We will climb the Round Tower from the “Light” and try to imagine the size of the dog described in this fairy tale. "That's so scary! There sits a dog, eyes and really like a Round Tower and turn exactly the wheels!

From the Tower along the embankment, we will go to the Newhavn Canal, on both sides surrounded by gingerbread multicolored houses in which Andersen’s heroes lived. The storyteller himself lived here in houses 18, 20 and 67.

Copenhagen will affect everyone - even adults will be happy to plunge into the wonderful fairy-tale world and will be surprised to learn the places about which they read in the "Snow Queen", "Light", "Princess on a Pea" or "Standing Tin Soldier" in their distant childhood.