Chapter 441: The City of Ancient Castles
Copenhagen has many castles, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a castle city.
Here, there is Amalienborg Palace, yes, it is the Danish royal palace Amalienborg Slot.
Amalienborg Royal Palace, located on the shores of the Olsun Strait in the eastern part of Copenhagen city, is the main palace of the Danish royal family. The Queen of Denmark and her wife spend most of their year here.
In the middle of the XVIII century, the royal palace was located inside Christianburg. When planning the city where Amalienborg Palace is located, King Frederick V decided to build a new center here. To this end, he gifted the land to the four Danish nobles, requiring them to build an identical-looking palace on the site.
The palace was designed by the most famous architect, Nicolai Eigtved, and was to create a bronze equestrian statue of the king.
After intense construction, four palaces were built one after the other between 1754 and 1760. According to the design, the front of these four palaces forms an octagonal square. In 1768, the French sculptor Saly asked the French sculptor Saly to make a bronze equestrian statue of King Frederick V to be placed in the center of the square.
At that time, Baolong also used the money earned from trade with China to build a fence for the bronze statue. Later, the four palaces changed hands several times, but they were always inhabited by nobles. In 1794, Christianburg was destroyed by fire, and the royal family decided to move the four palaces of Amalienborg.
Since then, it has been the residence of the royal family. Now, whenever Queen Margrethe II lives in the palace, the Danish flag is raised on the building where she is located.
Every day at 12 noon, a large number of people, mostly foreign tourists, gather in Amalienburg Square to watch the Changing of the Guard ceremony.
The soldiers of the royal family guard in front of the palace are all about 1.90 meters tall. They wore bearskin hats, black shirts (red shirts on festivals), gold buttons, blue trousers, white stripes, and large leather boots.
Sometimes they stood motionless in front of the spired, eight-edged, and red posts with their guns on their shoulders, and sometimes with their hands crossed, looking ahead, and walking with their feet straight, two guards walked from one end of the palace gate to the other, face to face or side by side.
Then he turned 180 degrees and walked back. Every day at 12 noon, the military band of the Royal Guards played music, walked in front, followed by the soldiers of the guards, from the barracks to the palace square, to replace the guards who stood guard in the morning.
Their every move is majestic and majestic, serious and serious, and the scene is very spectacular and lively. In the event of a major festival, the guards wore dressing uniforms, plus the hussar regiment procession, they rode tall horses, with steel helmets on their heads, long tassels floating on the top of the helmets, black embroidered gold uniforms on their bodies, red embroidered gold shawls on their left shoulders, horses' hooves clicked, sabers flashed, majestic and majestic, and the scene was even more prosperous.
In front of the palace, in addition to foreign tourists, there are often schoolchildren holding Danish flags, and the entire palace square is crammed. Amalienburg Palace has become one of the most important tourist attractions in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
The Royal Guard brings a lot of foreign exchange earnings to Denmark's tourism industry.
In the north of the island of Zealand, where the capital of Denmark is located, Copenhagen is home to a majestic castle called Frederiksborg Slot.
This palatial castle is built on three islands surrounded by crystal clear lakes. The majestic castle and the sparkling waves of the lake are magnificent.
With a history of more than 400 years, the castle has changed hands several times and is now a national history museum dedicated to royal paraphernalia, art treasures and valuable paintings showcasing Danish history.
The castle was originally the private estate of the Danish nobleman Herlof Trooller. In 1560, he was favored by King Frederick II and exchanged it for Trosil for a forest monastery in Nestvis in the south of Zealand.
Since then, the estate has been renamed Fort Friedrich. But at that time, the castle was nothing more than a two-story building built on the southernmost island, and it was extremely small. After King Christian IV ascended the throne, he built palaces, palaces, and churches all over the country, and at the same time greatly expanded Frederiksburg, making it begin to take shape and become the residence of the king and the royal family.
Nestled on the three islands, the northern island is home to the King's Hall, the Queen's Hall, the Prince's Hall and the King's Church, which are the king's main event venues. On the middle island are two rows of symmetrical east-west buildings, which were used by members of the royal family and their attendants and cabinet ministers when the king lived in Frederiksburg.
The king sometimes consulted with his ministers in the castle to discuss state affairs and handle state affairs, and for ease of walking, an "S" shaped stone bridge was built between the three islands for people to pass freely.
The halls and halls in the castle are all made of red bricks, decorated with white sand stone, and the gables between all the buildings are connected, so that the buildings of Mishima are integrated and magnificent. The most striking feature of the complex is the 92-meter-high Royal Church, whose spire crest merges with the spires of other buildings, forming a unique architectural style of the time.
In the central courtyard of the castle there is a famous fountain. In the center of the fountain is a quadrangular multi-tiered tower made of white sand stone. At the top is a bronze statue of Neptune with a trident in his hand, and at the bottom there is a group of bronze statues of various gods.
Each idol gushes out columns of water that cross into symmetrical, regular patterns. The base of the fountain is made of marble and granite, surrounded by fine holes, and the tower pillars spray water columns, and the whole fountain is dazzling, spotted and crystalline, which is pleasing to the eye.
These fountains were cast in Prague by Adlin Davries, the engraver of the German Emperor at the time, and later as far away as Denmark. In 1659, Denmark went to war with Sweden, and Denmark was defeated. The Swedes captured and looted Friedrichsburg, and the bronze fountain statue was recast in 1888.
As the residence of the Danish kings, Frederiksborg occupies a prominent place among the many ancient castles in Denmark. Every king was crowned and performed important religious ceremonies here. Several major events in Danish history also took place in the castle.
In 1721, after the end of the Nordic War (1700~1721), the two countries signed the famous Peace of Frederiksborg here, thus ending centuries of hostility between Denmark and Sweden.
Shortly after the signing of the Peace of Frederiksburg, King Christian VI of Denmark built a new palace, the Peace Palace, a few miles from Frederiksburg. Instead, Frederiksburg was turned into a museum.
In 1812, the then King Frederick VI acquired a large collection of paintings from a collector and deposited them in the palace's art gallery. Since then, oil paintings have increased year by year. Unfortunately, on a harsh winter night in 1859, the castle suddenly caught fire, and the fire destroyed almost all the buildings of the inner palace, and two-thirds of the paintings were burned.
Today, the museum restores a large collection of valuable artefacts and paintings depicting important events in Danish history, portraits of famous people and Denmark's oldest pipe organ, including a Komburnus pipe organ, made in 1610 and installed in the palace chapel in 1617.
It has a thousand and one wooden ducts that can still be played to this day. Most of the exhibits were collected during the campaign to collect artifacts and rebuild Fort Fitrichs. A significant portion of it was donated by Jacobson, ——. founder of the world-famous Carlsberg Brewery Company.
Originally used as a royal museum, the Frederiksborg Museum was heavily guarded and any visitor had to obtain royal permission to enter.
It wasn't until 1878 that the King of Denmark officially issued a decree announcing that it would be turned into a National Historical Museum. In 1882, Fitrichsburg was opened to the public. A large number of valuable exhibits vividly illustrate the rich history and cultural traditions of the Kingdom of Denmark and attract a large number of visitors and foreign tourists every year.
In addition, there is also a Krondborg, a famous tourist destination in Denmark, a small peninsula located more than 30 kilometers north of Copenhagen, across the Sunder Strait and Helsingborg between Sweden and Denmark.
Kronborg Palace is one of the most important castles of the European Renaissance and the earliest and most famous backdrop for the famous play Hamlet, attracting thousands of tourists every year. Kronborg Palace, majestic and majestic, is one of the most prestigious palace buildings in Denmark, is an important national symbol of the Danish people, and the common saying "sailing to Kronborg" means to return to the Danish motherland.
Kronborg Palace was officially named by King Frederick II of Denmark on January 24, 1577, but its history dates back to the 20s of the 15th century, when Kronborg Palace was a fortified castle.
Frederick II accepted the influence of the European aristocracy of the time, believing that wealth replaced military power as a symbol of power, and from 1574 to 1585 intermittently converted Kronborg Palace into a typical Renaissance style palace, adding towers and pointed roofs, and renovating the entire palace.
The Kronborg Palace has undergone many major historical changes. In 1629, the Kronborg Palace was almost completely destroyed by a fire. In 1631 Christian IV began the restoration of Kronborg Palace as it was, but with the addition of early Baroque decorations to the interior.
The palace has a large number of antique furniture, oil paintings, tapestries, and wood carvings. The king's apartments on the second floor contain a portrait of King Charles I of England, the masterpiece of the famous Dutch painter Gaelard. In 1658, the Kronborg Palace was bombarded and occupied by the Swedes.
The Swedes sacked the Kronborg Palace and soon left, plundering much of the precious artistic wealth left by Frederick II. In 1690, Christian V built fortifications at Kronborg as a fortress against land attacks.
From then on, the Danish kings spent less and less time in Kronborg Palace, which in 1785 was turned into a garrison camp. After the departure of the army from Kronborg in 1923, the furnishings of the Kronborg Palace were meticulously restored to the original state of the times of Frederick II and Christian V. To this day, there are still old forts and weapons in the castle.
Kronborg Palace constitutes the most important part of Danish cultural history. From the outside, the solemnity and elegance of the royal palace contrasted with the rugged savagery of the camp garrison. The interior decoration and furnishings of Kronborg Palace are a vivid illustration of the values and lifestyles of art, design and royalty during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The story of Shaken's famous play "Hamlet" was originally a Danish folklore, with Kronborg as the location of the story, and many famous actors in the world later starred in "Hamlet" with the castle courtyard as the background of the performance. The castle is also famous for its immortal masterpieces.
There are also stone carvings commemorating Shakespeare embedded in the palace walls.
Kronborg Palace, which means "Palace of the Crowns", is one of the finest palaces in Northern Europe in the style of Renaissance architecture. The palace is made of rock, with its brown copper roof, and its imposing majesty, and its interior is beautifully decorated with the characteristics of a royal residence.
The two bedrooms of the King and Queen are lavishly furnished: a magnificent foyer, painted ceilings, and marble fireplaces. Today, Kronborg Palace is a museum with a large collection of antique furniture, paintings, tapestries and wood carvings.
On the second floor, there is a portrait of King Charles I of England, commissioned by Christian IV for the famous Dutch painter Gaillard Hontost.
Ye Chao has a lot of free time, slowly travels through all the castles, during which there are beautiful women he likes, he attracts one or two, travels the world during the day, and talks about life at night.