This Rosenborg Slot (slot=castle), in the centre of Copenhagen. It is build in the same period and the same Dutch Renaissance style as this castle.
The castle started as a summer residence in 1606-1607. The summer house had only 2 floors. But in 1611 they added a tower. Between 1613 and 1615, they made the orginal summer house two times bigger. And in 1615 it got one floor more plus two towers and the first tower became bigger.
In 1624 it was finished and than Christian gave it the name "Rosenborg". Quite a process! But in the years after 1624, every king rebuilt it again and again.
Today, Rosenborg castle is opened to the public. It has 24 rooms which shows an insight of the royal live: e.g. Christian IV's toilet with Dutch tiles, Frederik III's marble room, a Venetian Glass Gabinet, jewels in the basement and much more.
If you want to see a painting of Christian IV, painted by the Dutcht painter Karel van Mander (a court painter of Christian and student of Rembrandt), look here.
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About the photo. I made this workshop for Kjeld/Steve T, so I wanted to try that for my self as well, especially because I couldn't get the colours of the orginal any better - a result of the bad weather conditions.
This were the steps in Picasa 2:
-more highlights
-more shadow
-film grain
-sepia
-adding a frame
I used this version before I give it the oldfashioned look. Do you like this postprocess?
And something else: some of you asked me to post the orginal of the pic "A train is coming". Here it is.