{"id":4016,"date":"2010-11-10T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2010-11-10T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T07:38:19","slug":"europe-holiday-denmark-part-v-frederiksborg-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=4016","title":{"rendered":"Europe holiday &#8211; Denmark part V &#8211; Frederiksborg Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you have the <strong>Copenhagen Pass<\/strong>, you have no excuse not to catch the train to Hiller\u00f8d and take a short walk through the lovely town, have lunch at one of the very nice cafes, and take a leisurely stroll around the Frederiksborg Castle which holds paintings documenting the history of Denmark and its Royal Family, as well as some contemporary art works, including the portrait of our <strong>Crown Princess Mary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is even more pleasant if you have a beautiful sunny day like I did, although storm clouds were never far away:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FBorgCastle\/P1110387.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/P1110387.jpg\" alt=\"the castle\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ceilings are incredibly ornate with thousands of sculptures such as these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FBorgCastle\/P1110283.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/P1110283.jpg\" alt=\"the ceiling\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the main hall is host to a beautiful wall size portrait of the Danish Queen Alexandra of England, Empress of India, and consort of King Edward VII:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FBorgCastle\/P1110279.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/P1110279.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Alexandra of England\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crown Princess Mary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FBorgCastle\/P1110351.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/P1110351.jpg\" alt=\"Crown Princess Mary\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And one of the copies of the historic <strong>Bayeaux tapestry<\/strong> which documented the invasion of England in 1066:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FBorgCastle\/P1110372.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/photos\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/P1110372.jpg\" alt=\"Bayeaux tapestry\" width=\"600\/\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos from this wonderful castle are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/gary\/JAlbumAll\/art\/Denmark\/FborgCastle\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos inside the castle were taken with Panasonic GH-1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?page_id=1510\">Micro Four Thirds<\/a> camera with Leica-D 25mm f\/1.4 lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you have the Copenhagen Pass, you have no excuse not to catch the train to Hiller\u00f8d and take a short walk through the lovely town, have lunch at one of the very nice cafes, and take a leisurely stroll around the Frederiksborg Castle which holds paintings documenting the history of Denmark and its Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[502,201,198,156],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-art","tag-denmark","tag-europe","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}