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Orientation Tour:
Passing under the gate, take Pusher Street directly into
the community. The first square—a kind of market square (souvenirs and
marijuana-related stuff)—is named Carl Madsens Plads, honoring the lawyer
who took the squatters' case to the Danish supreme court in 1976 and won.
Beyond that is Nemoland (a food circus, on the right). A huge warehouse
called the Green Hall (Den Gronne Hal) is a recycling center and hardware
store (where people get most of their building materials) that does double duty
at night as a concert hall and as a place where children work on crafts. If you
go up the stairs between Nemoland and the Green Hall, you'll climb up to the
ramparts that overlook the canal.
On the left beyond the Green Hall, a lane leads to the Månefiskeren café,
and beyond that, to the Morgenstedet vegetarian restaurant. Beyond these re-
commended restaurants, you'll find yourself lost in the totally untouristy,truly
local residential parts of Christiania, where kids play in the street and the old
folks sit out on the front stoop—just like any other neighborhood. Just as
St. Mark's Square isn't the “real Venice,” the hippie-druggie scene on Pusher
Street isn't the “real Christiania”—you can't say you've experienced Christi-
ania until you've strolled these back streets.
