The King's Garden (Kongens Have), Rosenborg
The King's Garden at Rosenborg Castle is Denmark's oldest royal garden, laid out in the Renaissance style in 1606 by King Christian IV and celebrated for its lime tree avenues, rose gardens, and Hercules Pavilion.
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Rosenborg is a Renaissance palace beside the King’s Garden in central Copenhagen. Its collections include the Danish crown jewels and royal regalia. The palace also contains Christian IV’s audience rooms and the bedchamber where he died in 1648.
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Established by King Christian IV just outside Copenhagen's old ramparts in 1606, Kongens Have (The King's Garden) was originally designed to supply fresh vegetables, fruit, and medicinal herbs to the royal court, while serving as a pleasure retreat where the king built his Dutch Renaissance summer castle, Rosenborg. The garden layout is famous for its Renaissance and early Baroque geometric avenues: the Knight's Path (Kavalergangen) and the Lady's Path (Damegangen), lined with towering lime trees planted in the seventeenth century that form soaring shaded cathedral arches. In the early eighteenth century, the garden was opened to the public, becoming Copenhagen's favorite pleasure ground. In 1773, royal architect C.F. Harsdorff remodelled the Blue House into the Classical Hercules Pavilion, named for its flanking statues of Hercules and the Nemean Lion. Nearby stands the historic Rose Garden, redesigned in 1964 as a Renaissance parterre filled with fragrant historic roses. Today, The King's Garden attracts millions of visitors with its pristine lawns, bronze statues (including the famous 1880 Hans Christian Andersen monument by August Saabye), and timeless views of Rosenborg Castle's copper spires.
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Stroll Copenhagen's oldest royal park, beneath 300-year-old Renaissance lime avenues, fragrant rose parterres, and the fairytale towers of Rosenborg Castle.
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