Royal Palace of Aranjuez

The Royal Palace of Aranjuez is a former Spanish royal residence. It changed into set up across the time Philip II of Spain moved the capital from Toledo to Madrid. Aranjuez have become one in every of 4 seasonal seats of presidency, occupied at some stage in the springtime. Thereafter, the courtroom moved successively to Rascafría, El Escorial and wintered in Madrid. It is open to the general public as considered one of numerous Spanish royal websites within the Community of Madrid, Spain. Management is entrusted to the Spanish Patrimonio Nacional, which does now not permit personal photography of its indoors for security reasons.

However, licenses may be to be had for unique purposes upon application. The location round Aranjuez enjoys a mild weather, a verdant and varied landscape with extremely good recreation hunting and has long been inhabited. In the 12^th century the Order of Santiago created an different hunting reserve along the river Tagus near its junction with the river Jarama. Its records as a royal web site began in the 16th century, when the order's grandmaster Lorenzo I Suárez de Figueroa.