Rosenborg Castle & Crown Jewels

Rosenborg Slot (Kongens Have)

A red-brick castle in the King's Garden, with the real crowns in the basement

⚠ Book online

Hours

October roughly 10am–4pm; shorter hours and often closed Mondays from November to April (check the official calendar)

Tickets

Adults around DKK 150 (DKK 10 off online), student discount, under-18s free but still need a ticket. Book at denkongeligesamling.dk; checkout price is final

Address

Øster Voldgade 4A, the red-brick castle in the King's Garden

Christian IV built this Dutch Renaissance castle as a summer house in the early 1600s. Room after room of tapestries, gilded ceilings and a mirror cabinet, but the stairs are narrow and the rooms small, so it feels like a king's home more than a palace. The highlight is the basement treasury: the Danish crowns, coronation swords and the emerald, pearl-ruby and diamond jewel sets glittering behind glass. Up in the Long Hall, three life-size silver lions guard the coronation thrones.