Fire Destroys Copenhagen’s 17th Century Stock Exchange, Causing the Collapse of Its Spire

The Copenhagen Stock Exchange of Borsen. Image © Jebulon via Wikipedia under license CC0In the early morning of April 16, a fire broke out in the capital of Denmark, engulfing Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, one of the oldest landmarks in the city. In the fire, the 56-meter-tall Dragon Spire, shaped as the tails of four entwined dragons, collapsed. In just a few hours after the fire begun, half of the 17th century Børsen building was destroyed according to authorities. The st