Copenhagen Shopping

Copenhagen is a prosperous city, which is often noticeable in the prices. Shopping is to a great extent concentrated in Den Indre Byen (City). If you stroll along Strøget and make small excursions into the side streets you'll find most things. However, for top class antiques it is necessary to pass through the Kongens Nytorv and make for Frederiksstaden. Classic Danish brands have long had their shops on or around Strøget. The city's two large department stores are also to be found there: Illum and Magasin du Nord. You can also access the latter directly from the newly built Metro. Illum - the beautiful old department store on Strøget - has become a shop-in-shop with brand shops selling fashion and furnishings and a superb delicatessen in the basement address: Østergade 52, tel. +45 3314 4002.

Nørgaard on Strøget sells established ladies' fashions where the classic look shares the space with trendy gear (Amagertorv 13, tel: +45 3312 2428). Stig P offers, besides its own design, jeans from Acne, Blue Cult and Mavi. In the shoe department you can find shoes from Marc Jacobs and Sonia Rykiel. Some party clothes and a lot of sober clothes for everyday use Address: Kronprinsensgade 14, tel. +45 3314 4216) You can find alternative shopping in what is officially called the Nørre Quarter, but which in popular parlance is always called Pisserenden.