City of Copenhagen. To the west of the old city centre, the neighbourhood of Verstebro was built, this consisting, in keeping with public health standards of the nineteenth-century city, of regular street blocks and wide avenues offering sweeping views. The Sonder Boulevard was one the main road axes of this urban development.The centre of this boulevard, which separated two lateral roads, was shaped by means of a grassy parterre that was densely populated with elms and edged by granite boulders