Best of IgoUgoRosenborg Castle impresses
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After reading up on all three of the castles/palaces that you can visit in Copenhagen, I thought Rosenborg would probably give me the best bang for my Krone and I was right. There are three floors of rooms packed with objects, paintings, furniture and tapestries. It's very lush and rich looking and there is so much to look at and examine. The castle is brick and sandstone and was built "out in the countryside" by Christian IV in the early 17th century as a summer home. His preferred residence was Frederiksborg Castle but it was further away from the city. It was expanded and reached it's current size and form about 20 years after it was began. There is an attached King's Garden park along with it. It was used as a Royal residence for about...
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From journal Visit to Denmark
See How Royalty Lived
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With an hour before Rosenborg Slot opened, we decided to explore Rosenborg Have. The park was massive and the colors were amazing. Some of the trees were five stories tall and the leaves were a mix of yellow, orange and red. We walked around the park taking in the cool fall air and marveling at the scenery.The Rosenborg Slot is on the western side of the gardens and looks massive as there are no other buildings surrounding it. The castle was built as the summer residence for the royal family, and is now used as a museum and depository for the Danish crown jewels. A moat circles the castle and a small bridge connects the island to the gardens. A soldier unlocked the gate and Ryan and I entered just before a large group of children. ...
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From journal Fall 2009 Trip to Europe
Rosenborg Castle and King's Gardens Are Relaxing
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Since it was such a beautiful day, we decided to walk through the King's Gardens (we thought to go to the Kunst Museum, but were too tired once we got there, but it's definitely worth a visit if you haven't been). These gardens are from the early 17th century and on this day there were many people walking babies, having picnics or sunning themselves, or just enjoying the walk. The castle itself is a beautiful building with soaring towers built in the Dutch Renaissance style; it was built in the first years of the 17th century as a summer residence to be surrounded by the beautiful park. Later it was enlarged and the Great Tower was added. It has been made into a museum which holds the Crown Jewels and other royal items from the first 300...
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From journal Cruise to the Baltic States and St. Petersburg
Rosenborg Slot
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We enjoyed so much the Rosenborg Slot and accompanying gardens, that we returned there three times during our visit to Copenhagen. Rosenborg Slot was built in the 1600's as a summer residence. It has been called "a playful version of a fortress". Surrounding parkland has beautiful flowers, shrubbery, and trees for those wanting striking photographs.
From journal Cozy Copenhagen
Best of IgoUgoRosenborg Slot
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The Dutch-Renaissance Rosenborg Slot epitomizes Copenhagen’s simultaneously accessible and forbidding edifices. Built in 1606 as a summer palace by King Christian IV, its has been open to the public as a museum of royal history since 1833. Bedecked with the requisite towers, spires, and moat to serve as a fairy-tale castle, it sits on the western edge of gardens originally designed to grow its vegetables and flowers that today form Konigens Have (the Royal Gardens), Copenhagen’s most central and pleasant public park. I don’t say this lightly, since Kongens Have face the city’s botanical gardens and are catercorner to Østre Anlæg, which encompasses the Hirschsprung Collection and Royal Museum of Fine Arts.
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From journal The Beauty of Copenhagen
Rosenborg Slot
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This palace, which is in a lovely large park, houses the Royal Crown Jewels in an underground display room, as well as having the palace itself furnished with many original and period pieces. Built in 1606, it has the interesting tower roofs so typical of Danish architecture, as well as a moat. It takes several hours to examine all the items on display. The cafe is great, and I have written about it in a separate entry.
From journal Wonderful Copenhagen
Rosenborg Castle
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The castle was built in 1633 by Christian IV in a lovely Renaissance style. The castle is equipped with a cooper roof and is surrounded by moats. The crown jewels are kept and displayed at Rosenborg Castle. The rooms of the castle are very elegant and decorated wonderfully. The castle does not have an electricity. The gardens of the Castle are lovely. The crowd jewels are good but nowhere as nice as England's.
From journal A few days in Copenhagen