While Fredensborg Slot's Palace Park , a 120-hectare spread of soothing woodland, is open to the public year-round, the Private Garden is only accessible in July. During this time, visitors can snoop around the royal family's Orangery and Herb Garden on guided tours. The Palace Park itself is crossed by long riding avenues that radiate outwards from the palace. Its most unusual feature is Normandsdalen , a circular amphitheatre containing 70 life-sized statues of Norwegian and Faroese folk characters.
The original small wooden dolls of these fishermen, farmers, soldiers and servants were carved by an 18th-century Norwegian postman, Jørgen Christensen Garnaas, who sent them to King Frederik V. Frederik liked them so much he had them made from sandstone.
