Amalienborg Palace
Four matching neoclassical mansions ringing an octagonal square, the working royal residence since a palace fire in seventeen ninety-four.
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This guide to Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen opens with the fire that destroyed the previous palace on this site during a birthday opera for King Christian V in 1689, killing as many as 180 people. It follows King Frederik V's decision six decades later to hand the site to four noblemen who built matching mansions around an octagonal square, and the second fire in 1794 that forced the crown to move in. Every day at noon, guardsmen still march the square that grew from two disasters.
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