Garden
The King's Garden
Øster Voldgade 4A, 1307 København
Baroque royal garden of lime-tree avenues, rose beds and fairy-tale statues around a Renaissance summer castle.
This guide to the King's Garden centers on the 1874 commission for a monument to Hans Christian Andersen, then approaching seventy, to be placed in the park he loved to walk while composing his fairy tales. It follows sculptor August Saabye's winning design, showing Andersen reading aloud to children gathered at his feet, and Andersen's own furious objection to it. Listen for how a beloved public monument almost never looked the way visitors see it today.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.