Frederiksberg Have
Romantic English-style royal garden of winding canals, small islands and a former royal teahouse pavilion.
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This guide to Frederiksberg Have in Copenhagen traces the garden through two royal reigns: King Frederik the Fourth, who broke ground here in the 1690s and laid out a strict Baroque garden meant only to be admired from a distance, and his successor Frederik the Sixth, who from around 1804 had himself rowed through newly dug winding canals in a gilded gondola while chatting with the subjects on the banks. You'll hear how that shift in taste reshaped the grounds into looping paths, hidden lakes and a small island with a Chinese teahouse, and how long the gates stayed guarded even after the king's gondola rides ended. It follows the garden's slow opening to the public, gate by gate.
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