Saturday, April 3, 2010 (Part 6):Once having completed our canal tour, the stop on our "Copenhagen in a day" whirlwind tour was Amalienborg. This is a complex of four large mansions where the royal family lives. The area in which these mansions are l
ocated is called Frederiksstaden. These grand houses were originally built as the private homes of some very wealthy merchants, but the royal family purchased them in the 1700's a
fter one of their palaces burned down. Interestingly, we had seen Amalienborg from the water, during our canal tour, but now we were seeing it from the land side.
As in London, the royal palaces are guarded by a special unit of palace guards. We entered the Amalienborg complex just after there had been a formal changing of the guard, and we were treated with the site of a contingent of about 16 soldiers formally marching out of the square. It was pretty neat!
Although some of the palaces are open to the public, there was a long line to get in, and we
had an aggressive agenda so we just took a quick look around and then proceeded along our way.
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