Frederiksborg Castle

Yesterday I went on a trip to see Frederiksborg Castle.  We took a bus about an hour north of København to a city called Hillerød.  The castle was originally built in the 1600's in the style of the Renaissance.  While it served as the home of the royal family for many years, it is now a museum depicting Danish History through paintings and antique furnishings.  The grounds were absolutely beautiful and the inside of the castle was set up to look like it would have when King Christian IV lived there.

  This was taken at the entrance to the main castle.

  This is me standing in the gardens behind the castle.  The grounds extended much further with beautiful fountains, statues, "the guest room/castle" and a pretty forest.

This is a picture of a "watch lion" in the great hall where balls would have been held.

This is one of the many rooms in the castle set up to match the period and adorned with impressive portraits and paintings.  This bed may look like a child's bed, but in reality it was a grown man's.  In olden days people were very superstitious and believed that the Grim Reaper would come and take away people that appeared to be dead.  To avoid this, people would sleep sitting up in bed and therefore it did not need to be very large.