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11 the “Sophie Amalienborg”, a royal palace surrounded with orangeries and parks lying between the harbour and the street “Bredgade”. Like so many other buildings also this palace was burnt (1689) and the large grounds remained unused until 1746, when the King Frederik V. charged his architect Nicolai Eigtved to make plans for buildings and laying out of streets in this new quarter, and already twenty years after nearly all the grounds were occupied.— ^ One of the first buildings raised here was the present British Legation;—further the four pavilions of “The Frederiks Hos­ pital” by Laurids de Thura, the same architect, who has made the nice little Royal hunting lodge, “Eremitagen,” near Copen­ hagen. Among the finest buildings planned by Nicolai Eigtved are the four palaces surrounding the octangular “Amalien­ borg place” and forming together the present Royal Residence. From an architectural point of view this octangular place, the four royal palaces and the adjacent “Marble Church” with its exceptionally finely shaped dome, forms one of the finest and noblest “Ensembles” you may find in the world. The “Marble Church” is built in our days but was as mentioned above originally planned by the french architect Jardin whose project recalls very much St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Among Barocco buildings in the other quarters of Copen­ hagen are the two fine buildings of the “Asiatic Company” one of which was erected by the architect Phillip de Lange. Also the curious Crane in the royal dock-yard is by him. Further on the Christian’s Church, by Nicolai Eigtved; the

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