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Four matching rococo palaces face one another across an octagonal cobbled square to form Amalienborg, the winter home of the Danish royal family in the heart of Copenhagen. Built in the mid-eighteenth century for noble families, the palaces were acquired by the crown after a fire destroyed an earlier royal residence, and they have housed Danish monarchs ever since. At the centre of the square stands a grand equestrian statue of King Frederik V, around which the four palaces are arranged with el...