Vesterbrogade is the main shopping street of the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It extends west for 1.5 km from the Rådhuspladsen (City Hall Square) along the municipal border with Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg Kommune is a municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It surrounded by the city of Copenhagen. The municipality, co-extensive with its seat, covers an area of and has a total population of 98,782 making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most...

 (which it finally enters) to Pile Allé where it turns into Roskildevej. On the way it passes the Copenhagen Central Station as well as the small triangular Vesterbro Torv.

Vesterbrogade arose when the country road leading in and out of Copenhagen's Western City Gate was urbanized in the second half of the 19th century after the city's old fortifications

Fortifications of Copenhagen (17th century)

The fortifications of Copenhagen underwent a comprehensive modernization and expansion in the 17th century. The project was commenced and largely masterplanned by Christian IV in the early 17th century but continued and completed by his successors...

 was decommissioned and the no-build zone outside them released. It is one of four such -bro streets.