Our favourite hotels near Gefion fountain

Guest rating: Impressive, 3.0

First Hotel Esplanaden Copenhagen

$ 82 Price from:
First Hotel Østerport Copenhagen

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$ 263 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Copenhagen Admiral Hotel

$ 160 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Adina Apartment Hotel Copenhagen

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$ 137 Price from:
Guest rating: Great, 3.5

Phoenix Copenhagen

$ 255 Price from:
Scandic Front Copenhagen

$ 239 Price from:
Guest rating: Great, 3.5

Clarion Collection Hotel Neptun Copenhagen

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$ 194 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Hotel Christian IV Copenhagen

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$ 155 Price from:
Guest rating: Great, 3.5

71 Nyhavn Hotel Copenhagen

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$ 237 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Generator Hostel Copenhagen

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$ 26 Price from:
Guest rating: Great, 3.5

Hotel Opera Copenhagen

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$ 158 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Hotel Maritime Copenhagen

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$ 123 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Copenhagen Strand Hotel

$ 212 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

Best Western Hotel City Copenhagen

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$ 184 Price from:
Guest rating: Fantastic, 4.0

First Hotel Skt Petri Copenhagen

Guests enjoy complimentary access to the small fitness room on the sixth floor, which has a range of...

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If you book a room in a quaint budget hotel near the Gefion Fountain in Copenhagen, make this remarkable sculpture the first stop on your sightseeing tour of the city. It will acquaint you with a dramatic story from Danish mythology. The Gefion Fountain (Gefion Springvandet in Danish) is beside St. Alban’s Church, not far from the famous statue of the Little Mermaid. It is a work in bronze, created in 1908 by Anders Bundgaard, and is one of Copenhagen’s largest and most recognizable public monuments.

The main figure on the fountain is a statue of the Scandinavian goddess Gefion. According to ancient legend, the king of Sweden promised Gefion as much land as she could plow in a single night. To outfox the king, Gefion turned her four sons into oxen and used them to plow up a big piece of Sweden. Then she picked up the chunk of land her oxen-sons had plowed, and cast it into the sea. That land became the Danish island of Zealand. The hole it left behind became Sweden’s Lake Vanem, whose shape somewhat resembles that of Zealand. The sculpture depicts Gefion with one hand on the plow while the other cracks a whip over her laboring oxen. It’s a charming story for you and your fellow vacationers to talk about back in your discount hotel in Copenhagen near the Gefion Fountain.