Dragør, Denmark

Dragør is the main town and the seat of the municipal council of Dragør Municipality, Denmark. Dragør is located on the southeastern coast of the island of Amager only 12 kilometer from the central Copenhagen, but the town is not a part of Metropolitan Copenhagen. Together with the neighbouring village of Store Magleby it form a separate urban area with a population of 11,419 (1st January 2009). Dragør has many very well preserved historical buildings. The old part of the town of Dragør is a cozy, picturesque maze of alleys with yellow painted houses, red roofs and cobblestone streets built in the traditional Danish style. Many of these buildings are hundreds of years old. It was a prosperous seafaring town in the later half of the 19th...