TIVOLI GARDENS
Welcome to the enchanted world of carnivals.A world of sweets and fairy-tale decorations where you can find your child's soul.
It is outside the ramparts that Christian VIII made arrange this park in 1843 on the model of Vauxhall of London. The king called upon a showman, Georg Carstensen. As for the name, it was borrowed from the Tivoli gardens in Paris. It takes about 3 hours to go around the park, which has one of the oldest roller coasters in the world, controlled manually by an operator. You will find all the usual fairground attractions: old-fashioned rides, Ferris wheels and other attractions that will turn your heart upside down! Let's go for a ride!
Welcome to an enchanted world. A world of sweets and fairy-tale decorations with light shows, multicolored flowerbeds and water effects. Tivoli has an authenticity that comes from its long history: for 160 years, generations of children and nostalgic adults have come here to have fun. Just imagine! The park has received about 300 million visitors since its inauguration. Currently, there are 4.5 million visitors per season, 60% of whom are Danish. One may ask why such a craze? Where does the magic of this vast garden come from? Without a doubt from its slightly old-fashioned atmosphere of a 19th century funfair. It starts at the entrance. A pavilion reminiscent of a maharaja's palace, brightly lit with its garlands of light bulbs! Then come the ticket inspectors, dressed like palace porters or circus ring boys. White gloves, red caps and suits with golden buttons. Once past the checkpoint, you enter the wonderful world of laughter and play. The alleys wind between the pavilions inspired by architecture from elsewhere: Chinese pagoda, Thousand and One Nights castle, pirate ship... On all sides, rides, some traditional, others ultramodern: bumper cars, ghost trains, glass mazes, duck fishing, shooting galleries... like in the good old days. As for the slot machines, which, until the end of the 1990s, only allowed you to win vouchers for ice cream or carousel tickets, they now give lucky winnerstokens that they can exchange for cash, up to a maximum of 300 DKK!
400,000 flowers. Green spaces are very popular with the Danes. Not a day goes by without a trip to a garden. Tivoli is very busy and rather quiet during the day: people come to walk around and entertain their children. There is a puppet theater for the little ones, a supervised playground with free access until 6 pm, near the lake. You can also feed the ducks, have lunch, admire the water features and (in the summer, of course) the 400,000 flowers, a third of which are replanted each season. When night comes, the garden takes on a magical aspect to which even the most jaded are not insensitive! Thousands of lanterns, lamps of all colors and shapes illuminating a decor that becomes almost unreal. A universe of fairy tales opens at dusk! It must be said that we are in the land of Andersen, fables and tales are part of everyday life! Let's not forget either the power of attraction of the East on the imagination of the Europeans of the 19th century. To the pleasure of the eyes is added the pleasure of the ears, in a very good-natured atmosphere, with the New Orleans jazz orchestra, or the Tivoli Guard composed of young musicians from 9 to 16 years old who give concerts on the open-air podium on Saturday afternoon. Every weekend at 5:30 pm and 7:20 pm, they parade through the park.
Pantomimes and other shows. Another magical place: the Chinese theater whose stage curtain opens and closes like a peacock's wheel. The Pantomime Teater built in 1874 by Vilhelm Dahlerup was the first building in the park. Every evening a pantomime show continues the tradition of comedia dell'arte. If you like music or dance, the park also has a concert hall: Concerthus, preceded by a rotunda and Glasshalen, the Glass Hall. Reviews, ballets and concerts are programmed here. Among the major events, each year, the Copenhagen Dance Festival welcomes ballet companies from around the world. Similarly, the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra gives about 50 concerts per year. Finally, another way to have fun: the large saltwater aquarium, which is said to be the largest in the world!
Halloween and Christmas at Tivoli. As attendance has dropped in recent years, Tivoli has set out to win back a younger audience by opening its doors until midnight or 1 a.m. (on weekends) and by programming pop and rock concerts on Friday nights. The objective is to offer constantly renewed animations. Thus the park opens for the All Saints' Day and Christmas holidays. The themes are respected.
Practical information: Visitors who have pre-purchased their entrance ticket can access Tivoli directly through the various gates installed around the perimeter. However, Copenhagen Card holders must go through the main entrance. The entrance ticket does not include access to the attractions, which are not free! The site is open at certain times of the year: from April to the end of September, for the All Saints' Day vacations and the Christmas holidays. Many restaurants allow you to eat on site.
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