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In 1943, Nazi sympathisers attempted to break the Danish people’s spirit by burning many of Tivoli’s buildings, including the concert hall, to the ground. Undaunted, the Danes built temporary buildings, and the park was back in operation after a few weeks.
Chinese style which in 1874 took the place of an older smaller theater. The audience stands in the open, the stage being inside the building. The theatre’s “curtain” is a mechanical peacock’s tail. From the very beginning, the Theater was the home of Italian pantomimes, introduced in Denmark by the Italian Giuseppe Casorti. This tradition, which is dependent on the Italian Commedia dell’Arte has been kept alive, including the characters Cassander (the old father), Columbine (his beautiful daughter), Harlequin (her lover), and, especially popular with the youngest spectators, the stupid servant Pierrot. The absence of spoken dialogue is an advantage, as Tivoli is now an international tourist attraction.
Tivoli is always evolving without abandoning its original charm or traditions. As Georg Carstensen said in 1844, “Tivoli will never, so to speak, be finished,” a sentiment echoed just over a century later when Walt Disney said of his own Tivoli-inspired theme park, “Disneyland will never be finished as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
Yes, this is just a filler entry with a picture and a long quote from Wikipedia. I guess most of my energy is still going to the digestion of the traditional Christmas meals. Well, here’s a little update of what’s been happening since Christmas.
We’ve been to Stockholm on one of them floating hotels that have their home port in Helsinki. The highlights of the trip included a massage on the ship and a visit to Hallwyl palace.
After the Stockholm trip, we went to Copenhagen to celebrate the New Year with friends. I still had some leftover frequent flyer points from the round the world trip earlier this year and they were good for two free return flights. Incidentally, they let me wait for my flight at the SAS lounge at Copenhagen airport. It had a cozy fireplace, free champagne, fresh newspaper and fruits and was amazingly luxurious in many, many ways. You can easily get enough points for the silver level of Star Alliance’s frequent flyer bonus program with a single round the world trip.
In Copenhagen, the most memorable places were the Tivoli gardens and the utopian hippie community of Christiania. The locals went completely bonkers with their fire crackers on the New Years Eve. The explosives were about twice as powerful as I’m used to.. ambulances and police cars were driving back and forth on the streets.
After getting back to Finland I’ve been trying to get some yearly maintenance done on my essential gear: bicycle, snowboard and computers.
The gadget freak that I am, I couldn’t resist the tempatation to order the topographical map of Austria for my handheld GPS unit (Garmin Vista Cx). Arnoweg, here I come!
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