Description
We auction the last 4 available tickets of this unique, behind-the-scenes travel program, with exceptional access. Guests will experience behind the scenes access to some of the country’s most fascinating treasures.
The program will be from June 24th - July 1st, 2017.
The National Monuments Foundation is delighted to announce this unparalleled program to Denmark to inaugurate their Scandinavian collaboration with the Millennium-Candler Peace, Justice, and Millennium Gate Prizes.
Be part of an exclusive moment with exceptional individuals.
Tour Highlights Include:
Access to Ledreborg Palace including Gardens, golf course, lunch at the private Kisserupgården Forest Cottage, lunch at Scandinavian faire Herthadalen by the Lake, zip line course, Vikingelandsbyen Iron Age Village, capped off with the Peace, Justice, and Millennium Gate Prize winner announcement dinner inside the Family Hall Ballroom followed by a laser light show over Ledreborg Gardens.
Private tour and lunch at The Hermitage Royal Hunting Lodge. The Lodge at Dyrehaven was built far from the court in Copenhagen as a leisure palace where King Christian VI could host private hunting parties.
Peace Concert at Roskilde Cathedral and private tour of Danish Royal Family Mausoleum including the former tomb of the Danish Princess Dagmar, who became Russian Empress Maria, mother of Czar Nicholas II.
Private tour of Kronborg, Eslinore, Hamlet’s Castle by our expert lecturer:
Shakespeare scholar, Bettijo Trawick, will give a brief lecture on Shakespeare and Hamlet after dinner at Kronborg.
Private tours of Thorvaldesn Museum, Christianborg Palace (Seat of the Government), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Frederiksborg Castle, Frederik’s Cathedral, and more
Accommodation:
For the first 3 nights, guests will be staying at the 4-star, newly renovated 71 Nyhavn Hotel in Copenhagen situated on the Nyhavn Canal near the Hans Christian Andersen house. For 200 years, this hotel has been standing between the foamy sprays from the harbor and dynamic life along the Nyhavn Canal.
The last 4 nights will be spent at Skjoldenaesholm Palace Hotel near Ledreborg Palace in the Danish countryside.
Tour Price:
$9,500 per person (double occupancy)
$10,500 per person (single occupancy) - additional $1000 will be coordinated for payment since you can only pay $9,500 right now.
Tour price includes: 7 days of private visits and receptions, 7 nights at 4 star luxury hotels, 7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 7 dinners, private transportation to and from all events.
This unique, behind-the-scenes travel program, with exceptional access, will be limited to 28 participants.
For more information and reservations, please contact: tony@lucefoundation.org
Confirmed participants will receive a full itinerary of this exceptional tour.
Item Special Note
Daily details of this unparalleled program to Denmark:
Saturday, June 24th:
Morning Check In at 71 Nyhavn Hotel in the Centre of Copenhagen near Hans Christian Andersen House
Lunch on your own
Early Afternoon Tour including visit of the Little Mermaid Statue, Copenhagen Cathedral, Amalienborg Palace Square, Copenhagen Residence of the Danish Royal family, Copenhagen Citadel (Kastellet) Tour.
Tour Thorvaldsen Museum with the museum director and National Monuments Foundation classicist Rodney Mims Cook. Thorvaldsen worked in a heroic neo-classicist style and he was seen as the successor of master sculptor Antonio Canova. He was received as a national hero after decades of study in Rome, and this building was constructed to honor his work.
Dinner at Kødbyens Fiskebar (Fish Bar):
Perhaps one of the most famous restaurants in Scandinavia. This restaurant is the brainchild of former sommelier of Noma, Anders Selmer. Cool industrial-style restaurant in the former meat market district serving simple, fresh seafood dishes.
Sunday, June 25th:
Breakfast in hotel
Copenhagen morning canal tour
Visit of Christiansborg Palace, which is the Seat of Government with access to Royal Reception Rooms, The Royal Kitchen, the Ruins and the Royal Stables
Lunch at TÃ¥rnet Afternoon Choices:
Situated in the tower of Christiansborg Palace, TÃ¥rnet celebrates and reinvents Danish food traditions. Experience the flavors of Denmark – pickled green tomatoes, raspberries from the backyard and freshly baked rye bread. The furniture, plates, cutlery and lamps are Danish – and so is the produce in the kitchen. One of the best views in the city. You must pass the famous tapestries hall to get there.
Afternoon Choices:
Tivoli Gardens amusement park
OR
Rosenborg Palace (Royal Family Jewels)
Dinner at Amass:
The hottest new restaurant in Copenhagen has been opened by Chef Matt Orlando, formerly Chef de Cuisine for Noma, which won “best restaurant in the world” 5 times by Restaurant Magazine. Airy, industrial dining room serving global dishes, made from produce sourced from the kitchen garden.
Monday, June 26th:
Breakfast in hotel
Monday has 2 option choices:
Option 1 for morning and afternoon: The Hermitage Royal Hunting Lodge and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The Lodge at Dyrehaven was built far from the court in Copenhagen as a leisure palace where King Christian VI could host private hunting parties.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
This is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art with works of the great impressionists and expressionists. It also includes Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Pablo
Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Henry Moore, and Alexander Calder among others.
Lunch at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
OR
Option 2 for morning and afternoon: Ledreborg Palace Golf, course designed by Sir Nick Faldo
Lunch at Ledreborg Golf Club House
Both Groups 1 and 2 will meet for dinner at Kronborg Castle (Elsinore, Hamlet’s Castle)
Shakespeare scholar Bettijo Trawick will give a brief lecture on Shakespeare and Hamlet after dinner (cocktail attire)
Tuesday, June 27th:
Breakfast in hotel
Check out of 71 Nyhavn Hotel
Check in to Skjoldenaesholm Palace Hotel
Frederiksborg Castle:
This impressive and unrivalled Renaissance castle was built in the first decades of the 17th century by the legendary Danish King Christian IV and incorporates the best of Renaissance architecture and craftsmanship. A tour through the museum's many beautiful rooms is an encounter with kings, queens, nobles, the bourgeois, events, and epochs, which have all shaped the country's history and development from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Prince Joachim married Princess Alexandra of Denmark here on November 18, 1995.
Lunch on Roskilde Square
Tour Danish Royal Family Mausoleum, Roskilde Cathedral, including former tomb of the Danish Princess Dagmar, who be- came Russian Empress Maria, mother of Czar Nicholas II. She is in the sunray of the coronation painting of her son.
Group dinner at Skjoldenaesholm Palace Hotel (casual attire)
Wednesday, June 28th:
Breakfast at hotel
Wednesday is a day of independent leisure or choose one of 3 options:
Option 1: Roskilde Viking Ship Cruise (But we must row!)
Countess Holstein-Ledreborg will hammer our strokes...not kidding.
Ship: Nidhug, 20 oars, max. 25 Passengers
Length: 16m Beam: 4.1m Draught:100cmWeight: 4tonnes Mast: 10m Yard: 10mSail:60m2
Oars:20 x 3.9m Max.Speed: Sail-15Kt, Oar-54, Motor 12
Picnic lunch served on board Viking ship, Roskilde Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde Harbor
Option 2: Roskilde Music Festival (like Woodstock)
Option 3: Ledreborg Palace Golf
Dinner at Kisserupgården Forest Cottage at Ledreborg Palace (casual attire)
Thursday, June 29th:
Breakfast at hotel
Thursday is a day of independent leisure or choose one of 2 options:
Option 1: Vikingelandsbyen - Iron Age Village - Restored
Option 2: Ledreborg Palace Golf, course designed by Sir Nick Faldo
Lunch: all guests will be at Ledreborg Palace Golf Club overlooking Viking burial mounds and ceremonial stones
Dinner at Remarica Cottage, the Ledreborg Palace version of Marie Antoinette's Hameau at Versailles
This very private hideaway is the summer residence of noted New York Times best-selling author Remar Sutton of Tortola. It is never open to the public and has been the scene of receptions for the Danish Crown, various princely European families connected to the Munro Holstein-Ledreborg clan, diplomats, movie stars, and just plain Americans. He is opening his hideaway to some of the best hospitality you have experienced in a lifetime. Singing around the sunken fire pit.
Friday, June 30th:
Breakfast at hotel
Ledreborg zip line (optional)
Ledreborg Golf (optional), course designed by Sir Nick Faldo
Leisurely walk through vast Ledreborg Gardens (optional)
Lunch at Herthadalen (casual attire)
Millennium-Candler Prize Commission announces Peace, Justice and Millennium Gate Prizes, Ledreborg Palace Chapel followed by a brief organ concert
Dinner and Dancing (cocktail attire) at Ledreborg Palace Family Hall Ballroom
After dinner laser show over the Ledreborg formal gardens and park