Copenhagen Town Hall Rådhus
The busy Town Hall Square (Rådhuspladsen) is dominated by Copenhagen Town Hall, which was built between 1892 and 1905 and is based partly on the Italian Renaissance and partly on medieval Danish architecture. The tower is 106m/350ft high and the building is richly adorned with sculpture and painting. Above the main entrance can be seen a figure of Bishop Absalon in gilded copper and in the Great Hall stand busts of Martin Nyrop, the architect who designed the building (d. 1921), the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1840), Hans Christian Andersen (1805-76) and the physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). The World Clock at the main entrance which was designed and constructed by Jens Olsen in 1955 shows not only the time and date but also various astronomical constellations.
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Hours
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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| Open | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | Closed |
| Close | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 13:00 |
Conducted tours: Mon.-Fri. at 3 p.m.; Sat. at 10 a.m. Admission to the hall is free. Guided tour costs DKK 20 and a trip to the clock tower is DKK 10.
Guides
Guided tour available as optional extra.
Related Attractions
Dragon's Leap Fountain
In Town Hall square of Copenhagen stands Dragon's Leap Fountain (sculpture "Contest of the Bull with the Lindworm" by Joachim Skovgaard, 1923), a memorial to Hans Christian Andersen and - in front of the Palace Hotel on a stone column 12m/40ft high - two lur-players in bronze by Siegfried Wagner (1914).
