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The Danish use the word "plads" where an English-speaker would generally use the word "square." This follows the pattern established in other European languages: the German use the cognate "platz" (Berlin's Potsdamer Platz); the French "place" (Paris' Place de Vosque); the Spanish "plaza" (like Madrid's Plaza Mayor); and the Italian "piazza ...
In the beginning of the 17th century, the area later to become Kongens Nytorv was located outside the Fortifications of Copenhagen, as the eastern section of the ramparts, Østervold, ran along the western edge of the current square, with the eastern city gate, Østerport, located at the end of the street Østergade.
Amagertorv (English: Amager Square) is a public square in the district of Indre By in central Copenhagen, Denmark.Today it forms part of the Strøget pedestrian zone, and is often described as the most central square in Copenhagen. [1]
Kultorvet (literally "The Coal Market") is a public square in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark.Together with Købmagergade and the southern part of Frederiksborggade, it forms a pedestrian zone between Nørreport station and Amagertorv on Strøget.
Bishop's Square) is a public square located in the Indre By neighborhood in Aarhus, Denmark. Bispetorv faces Aarhus Cathedral to the north, Aarhus Theatre to the east and is located in or close to the historic Latin Quarter neighborhood. A low sandstone wall bounds the square east, south and west and there are two small fountains with drinking ...
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The later Dantes Plads is seen as an extension of Ny Vestergade on a detail of an 1897 drawing by Franz Sedivý. The shape of the square were created when the grounds of Copenhagen's former West Rampart was redeveloped in the 1880s but it was then simply part of an extension of Ny Vestergade.