Copenhagen City Hall

 Any building with a door this beautiful has to be worth a trip inside. The first thing we saw in the City Hall was the perpetual clock designed by Jen Olsen. That was worth the visit in itself.

    

There is a separate blog on this clock built to run for thousands of years.

This door, with the striking brass plates, is inside the building and through the glass, you can see a stained glass window in the stairwell.

These are images from the courtyard. Europeans know how to create beautiful doors and doorways.

I'm going to put several images below to give an idea of the lovely details in this building. Of note are the graceful trash cans and the beautifully painted walls in the stair wells. 

With a mural of early days in Copenhagen there is an image of a person hanging in a gallows. There is no great deal in this portion of the mural but it is clearly a person. This was how thieves were dealt with in earlier centuries. One thing that we later learned is that if a farmer killed a wolf, the wolf would also be hung in the gallows. Apparently farmers, particularly sheep farmers, were adept at getting wolves because Denmark had none for quite a long time. They were recently reintroduced and the populace, particularly the shepherds, seem unsure that they are willing to share space with wolves.