TIVOLI - Copenhagen, Denmark  HB

Author: PREBEN EIDER

Copyright: 1973 - 1ST EDITION

Publisher: ELDERS FORLAG - DENMARK

Language: ENGLISH,GERMAN, FRENCH, DANISH

Format:  HARDBOUND

Illustrated: ALL COLOR

Pages: 16

ISBN:  DOES NOT APPLY

Shipping Dimensions:  7-1/2” High 9-3/4” Wide / 1/4” Thick

Shipping Weight:     13 OZ

[Condition: WHITE COVER HAS SOME EDGE AND SHELF WEAR. TEXT IS IN ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH & DANISH. PAGES HAVE ONLY LIGHT WEAR. please see photos]

SYNOPSIS:  Tivoli Gardens, also known simply as Tivoli, is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the world.

   Tivoli's founder, Georg Carstensen (b. 1812 – d. 1857), obtained a five-year charter to create Tivoli by telling King Christian VIII that "when the people are amusing themselves, they do not think about politics". The monarch granted Carstensen use of roughly 15 acres (61,000 m2) of the fortified glacis outside Vesterport (the West Gate) for an annual rent. Until the 1850s Tivoli was outside the city, accessible from the city only through the Vesterport.

   From its beginning Tivoli included a variety of attractions: buildings in the exotic style of an imaginary Orient: a theatre, band stands, restaurants and cafés, flower gardens, and mechanical amusement rides such as a merry-go-round and a primitive scenic railway. After dark, colored lamps illuminated the gardens. On certain evenings, specially designed fireworks could be seen reflected in Tivoli's lake, a remnant of the moat surrounding the city fortifications.