sight
1 Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake)
The orange bike-only ramp snaking over the harbour - a Copenhagen icon you ride, not look at.
Easy · 7.8 km · 1 hr 10 min
Built for Bikes: Crossing Copenhagen's Bridges
A ride built entirely around the city's celebrated bike bridges.
Sights & culture
Food & drink
Your route, stop by stop
Copenhagen reinvented the bike bridge, so make them the whole point. Ride the orange Cykelslangen, cross Bryggebroen and the undulating Lille Langebro, hop the canals on Cirkelbroen and Trangravsbroen, and slide over the kissing Inderhavnsbroen. Flat, car-light and pure cycle-city engineering, with a harbour-bath dip and a bakery stop built in.
Turn by turn
Directions
Street-by-street cues for the whole ride - the numbered stops match the pins on the map.
- Head south-east on Cykelslangen 248 m
- 1 Bryggebroen 102 m
- Turn left onto the path 34 m
- Turn right onto the path 64 m
- Turn left onto Islands Brygge 1.0 km
- Turn right onto the path 34 m
- 2 Islands Brygge Harbour Bath 39 m
- Turn left onto Islands Brygge 348 m
- Bear right onto Langebrogade 19 m
- Turn left onto the path 83 m
- 3 Lille Langebro 110 m
- Bear right onto the path 22 m
- Turn right onto Christians Brygge 49 m
- Bear left onto Christians Brygge 23 m
- 4 BLOX & Danish Architecture Center 67 m
- Turn left onto the path 201 m
- Turn left onto Voldgården 244 m
- 5 Cirkelbroen 544 m
- Turn left onto Strandgade 627 m
- Turn left onto the path 55 m
- 6 Broens Gadekokken 37 m
- Turn left onto the path 86 m
- Bear right onto the path 87 m
- 7 Inderhavnsbroen 51 m
- Turn right onto the path 70 m
- Turn right onto the path 402 m
- 8 Trangravsbroen 8 m
- Turn right onto the path 128 m
- Turn left onto Bodenhoffs Plads 168 m
- Turn left onto Prinsessegade 70 m
- Turn right onto the path 235 m
- Turn left onto Refshalevej 78 m
- Turn right onto the path 43 m
- Turn left onto the path 29 m
- Turn right onto the path 80 m
- Turn right onto the path 26 m
- Turn left onto the path 67 m
- Turn right onto Dyssebroen 77 m
- Turn left onto Midtdyssen 893 m
- Bear right onto Norddyssen 485 m
- Turn left onto Forlandet 811 m
- Turn left onto the path 17 m
- 9 Lille Bakery
Along the way
Stops worth making
sight
2 Bryggebroen
The city's first bike-and-foot harbour bridge, linking Islands Brygge to Fisketorvet and Sydhavn.
attraction
3 Islands Brygge Harbour Bath
The original harbour bath - clean enough to swim in the middle of the city.
sight
4 Lille Langebro
A gracefully curved, undulating bike bridge that swings open for boats - BLOX on one bank, Christianshavn on the other.
sight
5 BLOX & Danish Architecture Center
The architecture centre in a building people love to argue about - fitting.
sight
6 Cirkelbroen
Olafur Eliasson's circular "ship-mast" bridge over Christianshavn Canal.
restaurant
7 Broens Gadekokken
A waterfront street-food yard right by Inderhavnsbroen - tacos, lobster rolls and harbour views.
sight
8 Inderhavnsbroen
The "kissing bridge" sliding open for boats - the bike link between Nyhavn and Christianshavn.
sight
9 Trangravsbroen
A three-way bike-and-foot bridge fanning across the canals between Christianshavn and Holmen.
cafe
10 Lille Bakery
Refshaleoen bakery and lunch spot with great pastries and a sunny terrace.
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