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Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, is the beautiful, whose name in Danish means Porto dei Mercanti, since the Viking by ERA, where now the city, there was a fishing village that took its name of "Havn" ie " port ". The city of Copenhagen has suffered many difficult times during the various wars that have views of the protagonist between 800 and 900, but was able to rise considerably over anni'70, when he put in place the so-called "plane of the five fingers" , which involved the construction of several rail lines used to connect to the surrounding city. In 2000 the city of Copenhagen had his moment of glory with the opening of the Öresund Bridge, a 15 kilometers long that connects the city of Malmo.

In Europe was never built a bridge so long, in fact the event was so important that was to inaugurate the Swedish King Carl XVI and Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Visiting the city of Copenhagen is an experience to be done at least once in life for its many wonders, including the most famous in the world, because it is one of the main symbols is the statue of the mermaid. This is a sculpture located all0'ingresso the port city and portrays the protagonist of one of the most famous fairy tales of Hans Andersen. Its construction was commissioned in 1909 and was shown for the first time to the public August 23 1913. This monument has been covered many times over the years, vandals, the first of all in 1964 when some artists of the Situationist movement, a movement born in the 50s which sees its roots in Marxism, segarono and subtracting the head of the little mermaid without ever finding it, it was replaced with a copy.

Following this act, were several incidents of like nature which led to the decision to replace the statue with a new identity but form a single block of metal working. The statue of the mermaid is smaller than you might imagine, it is 1.25 meters high and weighs only 170 kg. E 'bound to be to admire the beauty, his melancholy look towards the open sea, as if expecting someone or something that never comes, and his legs still in the fins awaken in the hearts and minds of visitors feelings of tenderness and sweetness. Copenhagen offers many attractions are capable of arousing strong feelings in the artistic, emotional and cultural.