Introduce a district that is slightly different from ordinary districts in Copenhagen.
What surprised me in the official Copenhagen guidebook, which I got at the airport, was that it introduced a district with many erotic clubs and adult shops. I felt Denmark was a free country that introduced it usually without being overbearing.
Christiania is a district that omits out of the guidebook. When the former head of the city planning department, the host of Airbnb I stayed at, traveled to Italy, she met a traveler there. He didn't know about Copenhagen. But, after he knew that Christiania was in Copenhagen, he understood Copenhagen immediately. It seems to be a famous place among intoxicated people. A former head of the city planning department recommended me to visit there as it was a strange place. So I went there.
It is located along the canal next to Christianhavn, a cozy district. The dense trees, which are rare downtown, make mistake for a park if a visitor doesn't know about it. Christiania seemed to be a district that residents illegally occupied a place where rich nature remained.
I visited at 6:00 in the morning. I hardly saw anyone passing by, probably because it's the time when that kind of residents were not awake. Nonetheless, the district had an air of alienness from ordinary Copenhagen just around the corner.
What I felt from the house design and disposition of houses was that it was a place where people, who weren't interested in anything other than their world, lived on their own. It was not a slum but an atmosphere where cluttered things were left. Though public paths passed, I was confused as to whether it was a private path in quite a few places. How to create a boundary between public and private territory was somewhat different. I felt like I have invaded someone's property without permission. An illegal occupation that squatters created the place as they like it might generate such a state.
I liked the looseness of being unfettered, but I felt a little distant to those who were too addicted to their world.
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