There's a lift up to the belltower (at 10am, noon & th ® n'ily impressive view over the city, but more interesting is we Jens Olsen's World Clock (MonFri lOampm, Sat lOamlpm; lOkr), in a e room close to the entrance. What looks like a mass of inscrutable dials is an timepiece which took 27 years to perfect and contains a 570,000 plan J plotting moon and sun eclipses, solar time, local time and various •wetary orbits all with incredible accuracy. RbsicalHiMfv ltofrepert Миииш . $4Ma KuiTORvn SWion COPENHAGEN: INDRE BY Wfcrt.... . iAriMNi 60 mieiimm AND CHRISTIANSBORG # # Ki» J, fikrittteiisb»! . Kiri» CAMMELTOW VMSSW' |.,NYTOFIV ' "Те \ A. Also on Ridhuspladsen but with an appeal of an entirely different kind, Ripley's Believe It Or Not! (midJune to midSept daily lOamllpm; rest of the year MonSat 10am4.30pm; 40kr) is one of the growing international band of touristaimed assemblages of oddities a model of the world's tallest man and a bicycle made from matchsticks are just two of hundreds derived from the cartoons of the American, Robert L. Ripley. Indre By proper begins with Streget (literally "level measure"), a series of streets lined by pricey stores and graceless fastfood dives whose appeal is in the walkers, cyclists, rollerskaters and, even during the freezing winters, street entertainers who parade along it. Youll find most of Indre By's charm and historic sights in the streets west of Straget Along Stroget Very much the public face of Copenhagen, it's hard to imagine anything unpleasant ever happening on Streget, and the strip is perfectly suited to stressfre« ambling. Often the most active part is around Ganmieltorv and Nytorv, twj) squares ("old" and "new") on either side of Streget, where there's a morning and vegetable market, handmade jewellery and bricabrac stalls and frequent political rallies. It was between these squares that the fifteenthcentury Radhu' stood before being destroyed by fire in 1795. A new Ridhus was erected on Nytorv a century later, and this is now the city's Domhuset, or Law CourfSi marked by a suitably forbidding row of Neoclassical columns.? I NDRE e K67 Д few minutes' further on is the Helligands Югке (daily llampm), one of h oldest churches in the city, founded in the fourteenth century though largely built from 1728. While still in use as a place of worship, there are often art hws and other exhibitions inside which provide a good excuse for a peek at the h'lrch's vaulted ceiling and its slender granite columns. Of equally lowkey neal is the tobacco shop directly across Streget, which holds fte W.0. fns Tobaksmuseet onFri 9.30am5pm, Sat 9amlpm; free), and its diverting clutter of vintage pipes, ornate cigar holders and every conceiva uip smoking accessory, plus paintings and drawings satirising the deadly habit's tuals. Just beyond, a path leads east off Streget, through Hejbro Plads and on to rtie grandiose Skt Nikolai Kirke, where religion really takes a back pew.