Visiting Rosenborg Castle

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all doing just fine.

In this article I want to tell you about this day, when me and my two friends visited Rosenborg castle in Copenhagen, which was a pretty great place, I must say.

Well, we wanted to visit some different castles and museums and famous places in Copenhagen while we were there, however, it was kind of impossible to do that during our lectures time, because we had those trainings in Internal Medicine from 9 a. m. till 4 p. m. and that was pretty much a great deal of time, because most of the places were closed at 5 p. m. and it was impossible to visit the places, which we usually wanted to visit. So, it was a pretty good idea, that we could go and see those places after we finished our lectures in Internal Medicine, which was until the 4th of August and it was a free time for everyone after that, I guess, well, at least, I had some free days of my own in Copenhagen until I went to the Netherlands, and there were some girls from the course who were going to stay for a little while in Copenhagen just to feel the city and sightsee. Some of them were continuing the course in Internal Medicine and they had that weekend free too, so that we could go somewhere and hang out. So that, we decided, that as the botanical garden of Copenhagen was a great place and we could visit it free of charge, we would go there on this day. We would also like to go and visit the Rosenborg Castle, which was just nearby the botanical garden and we wouldn't miss anything good. That day would be a pretty long and interesting one, because we would visit those two places, and, besides, I had this other things planned to visit and enjoy my Copenhagen card, which was a blessing in disguise and it was really worth buying, to tell you the truth.

Well, I must say, that knowing that the entrance to the Rosenborg castle would be free of charge for me, because I had this Copenhagen Card, I was willing to go anywhere, and entering would be free.

So, me and my friends agreed, that we would meet at the entrance of Rosenborg castle at 12 o'clock approximately. Of course, we didn't really know what we would see in there, because we hadn’t seen any pictures or something like that for that matter, however, I knew that there were some pretty great jewellery, which were made for kings and for the old ones and the new ones and queens and princes and princesses, and I really looked forward to seeing them. Well, to tell you the truth, I wanted to see the whole castle, however, that jewellery part was a great deal and I wanted to see it, of course.

So, to be honest, I kind of went to the Rosenborg castle a little bit late, I mean, it was something past 12 o’clock, however, it was not that late and, besides, none of my friends were there in time when I got there, so I had to call or text them to know where they were. I just had a number of one of them, so that when I called her, she told me that she was running late and she would be there in 15 minutes or so, because she had lost the way and then she was just walking towards the Rosenborg castle, so that my being late was not a big deal and I was pretty relieved by that. And the other one was late too, so that until they arrived there in the Rosenborg castle, I would just walk around and look around and see all those beautiful things around the castle.

There were those labyrinths and flowers and bushes and even a small lake there. It was very sunny that day and people were just laying on the grass and they were kind of getting tanned, too. That was a really unusual thing for me, because people don’t feel that free in Georgia to just go someplace like that and have their shirts off and things like that and lay on the ground beside a lake and get tanned or just relaxed.

After some time of being there looking around the castle, I decided to go and get into the line, which was a pretty long one and everyone was just trying to buy the tickets and get into the castle and I decided, that while I was waiting for my friends, I might even get into the line for the tickets, so that I would have a place there and when they came I would help them buy the tickets without waiting in that huge line. Well, it appeared, that it was not a very good decision, because we wanted to have a guided tour into the Rosenborg castle and for that, we could use another entrance to the tickets office, which was not crowded at all and we could just get in there without any queues and buy those tickets for guided tours. And just when my turn came and my friends still were not there, I just went there to ask some information about the tickets, because I didn’t know whether my friends wanted to buy the English guided tour tickets, too, or if they wanted to have just the entrance tickets to the Castle. So, when I asked this lady, she told me, that the entrance tickets cost 110 DKK, but it was free for the people who had those Copenhagen cards, and that one I had. There could be a discount for those who were students, on the other hand you had to add something, about 50 DKK, if you wanted an English guided tour.

The prices

Well, if you are going to go to the Rosenborg castle all alone, you should pay 110 DKK if you’re an adult, of course.

If you are a child from 0 to 17 years old you get to enter the castle free of charge.

If you are a student, there’s a student discount and you just get to pay 75 DKK for yourself.

If you are going with a group, you should be at least 12 persons and each person pays 90 DKK.

There’s a chance to buy a combined ticket if you want to visit both Rosenborg and Amalienborg castles and you will just pay 155 DKK for both of them, while visiting each of them separately will cost you even more. However, when you buy that combined ticket, you should know, that it is valid for 36 hours and then you won’t be able to use it any more.

You can also book the tickets online on the Rosenborg castle webpage and in that case, you won’t need to wait in a ticket line when visiting the Rosenborg castle and you can rather go to the entrance straight forward and get inside the building. Then you will receive your ticket and you can have it in your phone and show it to the guard or just print it and show it to the guard in a printed version.

The opening hours

Well, the opening hours change during the seasons of the year and there are some exceptions on holidays and other events. When I visited the Rosenborg castle in summer, they opened at 10 a. m. and closed at 5 p. m., so that it was not a great thing for me as I’ve already said, because my lectures were finished at 4 p. m. and there was not enough time to go and visit the castle during those lecture days.

Usually, if you visit the Rosenborg castle anytime besides the summer season, its opening hours are from 10 a. m. till 4 p. m. and they even make it shorter during the winter holidays and on the 31st December. And they are closed from December 23 till December 25, when it’s Christmas time.

The Rosenborg castle is also closed on January the 1-st. So don’t even try visiting the castle during Christmas or New year because you won’t be able to get in.

About the Rosenborg Castle

Well, this Rosenborg Castle is a renaissance castle of Denmark and it’s called Rosenborg Slot in Danish, if you want to know the truth, or you can call it Kongernes Samling, which means the “king’s residence. ”

So, in the early 17th century, Christian IV commissioned Rosenborg to be built outside old Copenhagen. This small summer hermitage became the favourite residence of the King. Today, many of the rooms are preserved as they were in Christian IV’s time, and the pomp and circumstance of the past can be experienced in the form of the many furnishings and art treasures, which surrounded Danish kings and queens until the 19th century.

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