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The Royal Palace of Aranjuez was built by Felipe II counting on the same architects who built the Monastery of the Escorial (Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera), located between the rivers Tagus and Jarama, on the outskirts of Madrid. The Royal Site of Aranjuez was used as residence by the Catholic Kings and their construction was completed in full during the reign of Fernando VI adding two wings in the reign of Charles III, while the décor paid for by the eighteenth century, highlighting the Hall Mirrors or the Porcelain.

What to see in the Palace of Aranjuez?
Downstairs there is a museum of life in the Palace, an exhibition featuring various pieces that were used in the daily life of the palace. The garden (Garden Island) surrounded by the Tagus river and a canal, which separates the palace, is another site recommended when doing the full tour, with sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a characteristic set the gardens of the period of the Hapsburgs. The Royal House of Labrador is a mansion designed by Juan de Villanueva, which preserves one of the most important neo-classical ensembles in Europe.

Royal Barges Museum.
Located in the garden, exposing one of the most unique collections of pleasure craft of the Kings of Spain. One of the most interesting to visit with its famous Aranjuez Strawberry Train, which has been operating for 26 years, a historic locomotive and train with wooden carriages that offers the tourist route from Madrid to Aranjuez and back, with cultural activities, guides, and sometimes representations of the popular tasting strawberries and cream de Aranjuez. If you need more information, you can enter from the same link on the website of the strawberry train.

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