Saturday, October 25, 2008

Amalienborg Palace

Amalienborg was the home of Danish royal family after Christianborg Palace was burnt down by fire. It's also the monarch's winter residence. Amalienborg Palace consists of four palaces and I was lucky to be able to witness the changing of the guards on Sunday morning. Christianborg Palace is opened to tourists but it's unfortunate no cameras are allowed to be carried into the royal palace. I also went to the ruins of the Christianborg Palace which lies beneath the palace. It's pretty interesting.

All right, enough said. Let the photos do the rest ;-)
Shots of the Amalienborg Palace(Total of four palaces. Each on different sides, which forms a square around you if you are standing amidst them)
The guards were marching and getting ready to perform the honourable ceremony : Changing of the guards.
The guard is very dutiful in guarding the palace. Though he allows you to take photos with him but be caution not to go too near. He'll tell you to keep a distance from him.

There are lots of such statues around Copenhagen and they are always in green. *Shrug*

3 comments:

said...

the green statues, they are wearing mosses, perhaps?

Will said...

nice...

or the green could be because the statues are made of copper and oxidization causes copper to turn green

Petite Lass said...

白 - Perhaps need to find out from the locals. Hehe.

Will - Wow, you must scored pretty well in Chemistry. I have forgotten the chemical characteristics of all the steels/materials ;p