During our walking tour of Copenhagen, we learned that the city burned down three times in 80 years. Our tour guide joked that if we had to guess what happened to a building or landmark, the correct answer is always “it burned down.”
The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the city’s largest fire that burned almost half the city down. It is also the reason that most of the medieval section of the city was destroyed.
The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 destroyed the remaining middle-age architecture and the Danish Golden Age, where neo-classical architecture emerged, began after this fire.
You can tell which buildings in the city were built after the fires, because they don’t have 90 degree corners. Instead, these buildings have rounded corners, which is more fire safe because a firehose can easily round the building’s corners without getting a kink.
This building survived the fires 
This building has rounded corners, and was built after the fires 
The Jo Show 
Very interesting!
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