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Aranjuez

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

My brother is on vacations in Madrid, so we went to small trip to Aranjuez.

Palacio Real de Aranjuez supposed to be the spanish Versailles. But this attempt has failed. Not because of spanish king didn’t want to, but because of lack of money. Link to English wikipedia and Spanish wikipedia. The best thing about the palace are the gardens, and the fountains. The palace itself is little bit under reconstruction, and not many of its rooms are accessible to the public.

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There is really lot of beautiful fountains

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But only some of them have water, not like the previous one…

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Queen’s bed. You should know that she was nymphomaniac, so you can imagine…

So me, my brother, and my friend Martina, we took the cercanías train on saturday, and headed south. After one hour we got off, and could enjoy the place. There is not much to see except the palace, and the gardens, but we took it easy after a bit wilder Friday’s night…

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It was so hot, so some of us had to keep cooling heads…

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And to saturday belongs also Saturday’s lunch…

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And god of wine at the end…

The rest of the pictures is here