We went to La Granja de San Ildefonso, a small palace constructed aprox 1724 or thereabouts to serve as a retirement home for the Spanish king who had had enough of intrigues and politics and decided to abdicate. He got to relax a whole year before his succesor died, and had to go back to "kinging" for another 20 years. Poor fellow. The garden is beautiful in autum, and I'll definitivly go back in May some year to see the more formal parts of it and the herbal garden..It is very big, and I saw enough to know I want to go back.
The palace it self was a let down. It houses a museum of tapestries and those are incredible, but there is almost no information about the people who lived there, how they passed their days..So you walk in these rooms and there might be a small plaque that says "The bedroom" and then a nice bed, and that is it.
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