The Royal Palace was built in 1825-1848 gg. and currently serves as the seat of the reigning King Harald V. Above the building, consisting of 173 rooms, decorated in gold standard fluttering monarch or the flag of the Crown Prince, if the head of state away.

Entrance to the Palace itself is only open to guided tours organized from 20 July to 15 August. However, everyone can sit on its steps, walk through the Palace Square, watch the changing of the guard and the royal guards in bowler hats with a bunch of feathers, dressed in dark blue vest with green epaulets.

Front of the palace, a bronze equestrian statue of King Karl XIV Johan, after whom the street is named, originating from the palace doors. During the celebration of Constitution Day (May 17) it on it held a solemn parade of the column Norwegians carrying national flags, and the royal family greeted the procession from the balcony of the Palace.

Around the Royal Palace is a park with ponds, broken court gardener King Karl XIV Johan. These residents are constantly coming to Oslo to relax: sunbathing, roller skating, badminton and launch kites. Near the park is a wooden villa "Grotto", built for the Norwegian poet and social activist Henrik Vergelanna in the middle of the XIX century.