Vester Voldgade (lit. English: West Rampart Street) is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark which runs from Jarmers Plads to the waterfront between Frederiksholms Kanal and Langebro, passing the City Hall Square on the way.
Together with Nørre Voldgade and Øster Voldgade it forms a traffic artery which arches around the Zealand side of central Copenhagen all the way to Oslo Plads where it continues as Folke Bernadottes Allé along the western and northern periphery of Kastellet.
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Vester Voldgade was originally a narrow alley which ran along the inner margin of Copenhagen's West Rampart, part of the Bastioned Fortification Ring which enclosed Copenhagen. After the fortifications were decommissioned in 1867, it was expanded into a major thoroughfare which ran past the city's haymarket which was later converted into the City Hall Square after the new Copenhagen City Hall opened in 1905.
The section of Vestervoldgade which runs from the City Hall Square to the waterfront is currently being redeveloped as a green promenade. The plan concentrates car traffic in two lanes instead of four also covers Dantes Plads which connects the street to H. C. Andersens Boulevard in front of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. It is designed by the architectural firm COBE and GHB Landskabsarkitekter.[1]