It begins at Holmens Kanal, opposite the Church of Holmen, and runs west along the canal for one and a half blocks before widening into a small, triangular space adjacent to Højbro Bridge and Højbro Plads.
18), once one of the city's finest hotels, is from 1798 and was designed by Jørgen Henrich Rawert but was expanded with an extra floor in 1886 after it had been taken over by a newspaper publishing house.
20 was designed by Andreas Hallander and built 1798-1799 for the merchant C. F. Friderici but takes its name after the writer and politician Carl Ploug who acquired it in 1862.
16 which was built by Philip de Lange for General War Commissioner Stephen Hansen in 1748.
2 at the corner of Holmens Kanal, the former headquarters of Nordisk Genforsikring, an insurance company, which replaced several older properties when it was built between 1932 and 1938.