On one side of Frue Plads is the city’s cathedral, the Church of Our Lady, on the other Copenhagen University. One of the university buildings that no longer exists is the Anatomy House, destroyed in the great fire of 1728. Here you could buy tickets to watch physicians dissect corpses, usually executed criminals, and demonstrate medicine’s expanding frontiers. In ’Anatomy of City’ you’ll hear a tale about a dissection in 1673. Tap find out more for the free Hidden Copenhagen app.

Trinitatis Kirke began life as a 17th-century royal project. Christian IV was trying to do three things at once: create a church for students, space for a library, and an observatory – the round tower – for astronomers. What you can’t see today is the cemetery that was under your feet. In the ‘Anatomy of City’ trail, the seventeenth-century Copenhagen student, Nils, is careful to avoid the gravestones. Tap find out more to get the free audio app.

Gammeltorv is Copenhagen’s oldest square and it was once a bustling marketplace. The Caritas fountain you see today, with its figure of Charity on top, was a gift to the city by King Christian IV in the 17th century – but citizens at the time were more interested in the octagonal well at its base, where they could get the freshest water in town. Tap the link for the ‘Anatomy of a City’ trail and find out how they piped water in from Emdrup lake.

Before Nytorv or ‘new square’ existed, this area beside Gammeltorv was where they kept the stables for the city’s breeding bulls. In 1610, a space was created in front of the now-vanished town hall and Nytorv became the new centre of civic justice. Trials took place under the town hall’s arches, and floggings, hangings and beheadings were carried out on the square itself. In ‘Anatomy of a City’, a woman stands trial here for infanticide in 1673. Tap find out more for the app.

The canal you see on Gammel Strand is only a remnant of what was once the busiest port in the Danish-Norwegian realm. The sea used to come in almost as far as the houses along the side. When they built the Metro in 2012-14, archaeologists found treasures under here – early modern trash, plus wine glasses from Italy and porcelain from China. Tap find out more for the free Hidden Copenhagen app and you may also be invited for a drink at the Rose Tavern.

Based where the city walls once stood, this is Copenhagen’s storehouse of memory. The Museum of Copenhagen – For City Lovers. In this beautiful, historic building you can experience the history of Copenhagen from the earliest times to the present day. You’ll also find some of the objects featured in ‘Anatomy of the City’, set in 1673. Tap find out more for the free Hidden Copenhagen app.