Rick Steves Spain 2020 by Rick Steves

Author:Rick Steves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Publishing
Published: 2019-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

NEAR SEGOVIA

▲La Granja de San Ildefonso Palace

This “little Versailles,” six miles south of Segovia, is much smaller and happier than nearby El Escorial. The palace and gardens were built by the homesick French-born King Philip V, grandson of Louis XIV. Today it’s restored to its original 18th-century splendor, with its royal collection of tapestries, clocks, and crystal (actually made at the palace’s royal crystal factory). Plumbers and gardeners imported from France and Italy made Philip a garden that rivaled Versailles’. The Bourbon Philip chose to be buried here (in the adjacent church) rather than with his Habsburg predecessors at El Escorial.

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