Nørrebro: Jægersborggade, Assistens Cemetery and Superkilen

Cross the wide granite bridge of Dronning Louises Bro across the Copenhagen Lakes (Søerne) and you enter Nørrebro, the capital's most multicultural, youthful and creative district. On sunny afternoons the wide pavements of the bridge itself fill with locals sitting on benches watching thousands of cyclists stream past toward Nørrebrogade.

Assistens Cemetery (Assistens Kirkegård) and Jægersborggade

Halfway up Nørrebrogade behind a long mustard-yellow wall lies Assistens Kirkegård, inaugurated in 1760 when churchyards inside the city walls ran out of space. Far from feeling sombre, Assistens functions as Nørrebro's most beloved leafy botanical park: locals stroll under ancient oak and lime trees along quiet gravel avenues to visit the simple granite headstones of fairy-tale author Hans Christian Andersen, existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, quantum physicist Niels Bohr and Golden Age painter Christen Købke.

Exit the northern gate of the cemetery at Jagtvej and you step straight onto Jægersborggade, a single cobbled residential block that has become a showcase for small-batch craftsmanship. In three hundred metres you can visit subterranean ceramicists and jewellery makers, a caramellerie, organic wine bars, a micro-roastery (Coffee Collective) and Michelin-recognised vegetable-focused dining rooms. Around the corner on Rantzausgade and Stefansgade, casual neighbourhood bars pour Danish craft beer beside vintage boutiques.

Superkilen Urban Park and Ravnsborggade Antiques

Ten minutes north on foot (or one stop on the M3 Cityringen Metro to Nørrebros Runddel or Nørrebro station) stretches Superkilen, an imaginative one-kilometre linear urban park designed by the arts collective Superflex, landscape architects Topotek1 and architecture studio BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Celebrating the more than fifty nationalities living in Nørrebro, the park is split into three colour-coded zones filled with street furniture collected from around the globe: the Red Square (paved in magenta and orange for sports and markets), the Black Market (where white geometric lines curve dynamically around a Moroccan fountain, Japanese octopus playground slide and palm trees from China, creating a famous optical illusion from the small hill) and the Green Park. On your walk back toward the Lakes, turn down Ravnsborggade and Sankt Hans Torv for antique shops and evening bistros.