Spain

Royal Palace of Aranjuez

A royal site built as a landscape Aranjuez is often introduced through its Royal Palace, but the palace makes the most sense as part of a larger designed territory. The UNESCO-listed Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez brings together the royal residence, ornamental gardens, historic orchards, avenues, waterways and an eighteenth-century town plan. Its character comes from relationships between nature and human design: the Tagus and Jarama rivers, cultivated land and formal gardens were shaped together across…...