This year marks 48 years since I discovered the magic of Western Cemetery - and 10 years since I first took a tour out there.
It needs to be celebrated. So for the rest of the year I will skip the fixed route and improvise with your help and suggestions through my absolute favorite place in Copenhagen.
In addition, I also put the price down (for a while) to the paltry 100kr per head that I started with a decade ago.
On November 2, 1870, the new, large cemetery for the poor was inaugurated in the countryside. Here on the edge between Valby, Vesterbro and Kongens Enghave there was plenty of space. Quite quickly it became the most used cemetery in Copenhagen, both social democratic notables, poets, artists and ordinary workers were laid to rest.
Join us on a journey through a century and a half of Copenhagen's cultural history and meet, among other things, a visionary schoolteacher, a ditto postman, a drunk Swede, an unhappily in love Swede and all the other exciting destinies - or as many as we can now reach out of the hundreds of preserved burial sites with fascinating stories.
Vandrehistorien er en lille privat virksomhed der har formidlet Københavns- og Danmarkshistorie med humor og indsigt siden 2014. Vi laver byvandringer, foredrag, historiefortællinger og specialevents for både private, virksomheder og uddannelsessektoren. Virksomheden blev stiftet af Mads Kristian Mikkelsen, folkeskolelærer, venligbo og byhistoriker. Vi formidler byhistorien med dyb faktuel viden og skæv humor, så vi kan glæde flest muligt mennesker med vores fantastiske byhistorie.