Copenhagen is renowned for being northern Europe's largest festival city. Numerous festivals are held during the year with themes ranging from pop and jazz to film, ballet, design and the visual arts.

This report provides an analysis of the World Outgames held in Copenhagen between July 25th and August 2nd,2009. A total of approximately 5,500 non-local active participants and officials attended the event. A further estimated 5,000 spectators attended the event, hereof approximately 2,600 cruise ships passengers.

Copenhagen is gayer than gay. Copenhageners are open-minded, relaxed and tolerant people, and the capital city has long been a playground for both gay Danes and tourists. Here you can be free, open and most of all yourself. Here is a list of our recommended gay bars, events and restaurants.

Copenhagen is a Christmas city. The holiday is the most eagerly anticipated by Danes who have passed down its simple traditions from generation to generation. Here’s an overwiev of what’s going on in the city, when December arrives.

Film, fashion, gastronomy and music - every year Copenhagen offers loads of festivals to suit all interests. In 2013 there will be particular focus on one event when the Eurovision Song Contest comes to the Swedish city of Malmø, just a few kilometres from Copenhagen.

Denmark’s Prime Minister and acting EU chairman, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik will give the world’s toughest road cycling race a royal send-off when Giro d’Italia 2012 starts in Denmark 5-7 May. Denmark will celebrate the event with a giant pink party.

Gastronomic safaris by boat, walks in Nordic Noir Copenhagen, concerts in warehouses and pop-up restaurants. Get ready for the Wondercool festival - Copenhagen’s cultural month of February.

The eighth installment of Copenhagen Cooking, from 24 August to 2 September, will be a special celebration of the Nordic culinary heritage which, these days, has helped to make Copenhagen one of the world's most exciting gastronomic destinations.

Youngsters dining at Noma, the number one restaurant in the world! Hardly an everyday event, but during the food festival ‘Copenhagen Cooking’ this is exactly what happens. For everyone else, over a hundred other unique gastronomic events awaits from 24 August to 2 September in Copenhagen.

Denmark's national philosopher, and one of the country's most influential cultural figures, would have celebrated his 200th birthday on 5 May 2013. Søren Kierkegaard's bicentenary will be marked this year with numerous events across the city.

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Wonderfall is the name of Wonderful Copenhagen's new event campaign which gather the many activities in Copenhagen during the autumn holiday. Wonderfall adresses families with children and runs from 12.-21. October.

In Copenhagen children are the focal point of city life. Parks and playgrounds, baths and beaches, Christiania bikes for transporting the little ones, reserved places on buses and trains for prams and pushchairs, children's menus in restaurants, a general safety second to only one other country in the world, and of course reductions at all museums, galleries and attractions. Read more about Copenhagen for kids.

Autumn break in Copenhagen is true to tradition kicked off with the Night of Culture. In the following two weeks, Copenhagen’s autumn event, Wonderfall, presents lots of special activities for the entire family.

Love of freedom. Freedom to love. That was the slogan during World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen, and it has never rung truer in Copenhagen than today. Copenhageners are open-minded, relaxed and tolerant people, and the capital city has long been a playground for both gay Danes and tourists. Here you can be free, open and most of all yourself.

Copenhagen has for a long time been a tolerant and relaxed capital for both gay Danes and tourists. This is one of the reasons why the city among other things hosted the second World Outgames in 2009; a sports, human rights, art and LGBT event, which was a great success for all involved.

Great materials. Functional. With an edge. Danish fashion is cool, wearable and fast becoming internationally known. Not only are Danish fashion designers earning international recognition, Copenhagen is also home to Scandinavia’s largest Fashion Week. In fact, since the sixties, Danish fashion has developed into one of the most successful Danish export industries. Read more about Scandinavia's fashion capital.

The new 2012 edition of the Michelin Guide has awarded Copenhagen’s restaurants a total of 14 stars. Not only is that more than any other Scandinavian city, it is also more than other European cities such as Hamburg, Amsterdam and Vienna, Copenhagen also has more Michelin restaurants than Rome. This means that Copenhagen forces it’s position as the gastronomy capital of the North.

Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a bumpy ride! We caught up with comedienne Pam Ann when she was in Copenhagen, which she absolutely loves, in November 2012 on her worldwide one-woman show Pam Ann Around the World. We asked her about Copenhagen. Here is what she said.

A Copenhagen icon since 1755, the Hotel d’Angleterre will reopen in May 2013 following the most ambitious hotel restoration in Danish history.

Jægersborggade is one of the hippest and most buzzing streets in Copenhagen at the moment. The streets is located in the vibrant Noerrebro area and hosts around 40 interesting shops, cafees, restaurants and bars.

This winter's edition of Copenhagen Cooking, which runs throughout February, pays tribute to blue gold, MAD Mondays, gastronomic quizzes and dishes which turn into choruses.

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Carlsberg City is a small area in Vesterbro in Copenhagen, bordering to the Valby district. The area is named after Carlsberg the beer, which was brewed on the premises from 1847 - 2008, when the production was moved to Jutland. However the visitor centre Visit Carlsberg and Jacobsen House Brewery, which produces special brews, are still located here.

An expected number of 700.000 visitors annual, around 20.000 animals and 450 different species: Denmark’s new aquarium ‘The Blue Planet’ will be open for guests for the first time on March 22, 2013. The new aquarium is already expected to become one of Denmark’s five largest tourist attractions.

From next year guests will be able to enjoy three brand new rides as Tivoli's summer season presents a major, new Tycho Brahe universe - a tribute to the world famous Danish astronomer.

The construction of the brand new waterfront of central Copenhagen 'Kalvebod Bølge' has just started and is expected to be finished in the summer 2013.

Danes excel in design, and Copenhagen offers everything from furniture and textile design to design museums and showrooms as well as design events. Experience design history and design exhibitions at Designmuseum Danmark and catch up on current Danish designers and design trends at Danish Design Center. Every second year Copenhagen also hosts the design award show INDEX: Design to Improve Life.

Danish Giro-cities dress in pink The work to dress Herning and Horsens in pink for the start of Giro d’Italia on May 5th - 7th is taking shape

Since the sixties, Danish fashion has developed into one of the most successful Danish export industries. Danish fashion is characterized by high quality materials, cutting edge design – and what in short is called “democratic fashion”.

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Danish designer, fashion commentator and photographer Jim Lyngvild grew up in one of Copenhagen’s western suburbs, lives on the island of Funen, but commutes to Copenhagen at least once a week to work or have a good time.

17-year-old Sarah grew up in one of Copenhagen’s western suburbs. The young woman won the Danish X-Factor in 2011 with her voice and personality, and when she simultaneously came out as a lesbian at the age of just 15, she immediately became a role model for young gays across Denmark.

Throughout the green and fertile North Sealand, undulating open landscapes mix with impressive forests and large lakes. Along the north coast you find some of Sealand's most beautiful coastal stretches and some of Denmark’s most interesting museums.

5 May 2013 is Søren Kierkegaard's 200th birthday. The writer and philosopher will be celebrated by Golden Days and Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at University of Copenhagen. Search Kierkegaard2013.dk for events throughout the year. Even if Kierkegaard's life and work today interests the whole world, he was himself a very local fellow. He put his mark on the city - physically as well as spiritually. Kierkegaard walked the streets of Copenhagen and his promenades are world famous.

The Copenhageners and other good people will need to fasten their seatbelts and get their nerves straight. Because now they have the opportunity to challenge their inner daredevil with an event of international calliber.

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The 2013 edition of the Michelin Guide Rouge has awarded Copenhagen’s restaurants a total of 15 stars, a record high for Copenhagen. The fully organic restaurant, Geranium, was awarded its 2nd Michelin giving the city two two-star restaurants.

Definitions of Danish design have filled countless books and newspaper articles over the last few decades, but its essence is to be found in timeless simplicity, quality materials and functionality. One thing is certain; Danes are among the leaders in world design.

Lights, christmas trees, shopping, eating and if you're lucky, lots of snow. Christmas in Copenhagn is wonderful. Here are some basic facts about this special time of the year in the Danish capital.

Copenhagen is a very kid friendly city. You have free places reserved on buses and trains for prams and pushchairs, children's menus in restaurants, and of course reductions at all museums, galleries and entertainments. Kids are fully incorporated into the everyday life of the city, which makes Copenhagen a perfect city to visit.

From vile Vikings to ancient castles and palaces inhabited by real princes and princesses, cobblestone narrow streets, old timbered houses and a certain sculpture of a little mermaid. Copenhagen is a modern day fairytale with a happy ending.

Wonderful Copenhagens repræsentantskab vælger medlemmer til bestyrelsen og fungerer som rådgivende og vejledende organ for bestyrelsen.

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