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April-Sept Mon-Fri 9am-4.45pm, Sat 9am-noon, Sun 12.30pm-3.45pm; Oct-March Tues-Fri 10am-3.45pm, Sat 11.30am-3.45pm, Sun 12.30pm-3.45pm; 12kr. The major pointer to the town's former status is the fabulous Roskilde Domkirke , the burial place of Danish royalty and one of Scandinavia's most important religious sites. The cathedral was originally founded by Bishop Absalon in 1170 on the site of a tenth-century church erected by Harald Bluetooth and finished during the fourteenth century, although portions have been added right up to the twentieth. The result is a mishmash of architectural styles, though one that hangs together with surprising neatness. The interior is dominated by the grandiose tombs of twenty Danish kings and seventeen queens in four large royal chapels . The most richly endowed chapel is that of Christian IV, a once austere resting place jazzed-up - in typical early nineteenth-century Romantic style - with bronze statues, wall-length frescoes and vast paintings of scenes from his reign. (The most recently interred monarch, Frederik IX, the father of the present queen, lies outside in a small contemporary tomb which looks strangely out of place against the historic cathedral.) Look out, too, for the massive altarpiece: made in Antwerp in 1560, and depicting the various travails of Christ, it was taken as payment for the Sound Toll.
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