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Christiansborg Palace
The palace on its own island that houses Denmark's parliament, royal reception rooms and ruins of the first castle.
- Open
- Most days; check the website
- Price
- Paid; free for the tower
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Prins Jørgens Gård 1, 1218 CopenhagenDirections
- Getting There
- Gammel Strand station (Metro).
Why Go
The only building in the world to house all three branches of a country's government, it has royal reception rooms hung with tapestries and ruins of Bishop Absalon's 12th-century castle in its basement.
Its tower has the city's highest viewpoint, and it's free.
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