Aranjuez, Spain
I boarded the bus to Aranjuez with my class. Aranjuez is 30 miles south of Madrid. There are six royal palaces within 60 miles of Madrid, of which the biggest is the Royal Palace in Madrid, which is also the winter palace. Aranjuez has the spring palace.
There is also an even smaller palace, created by Felipe II in the 1500s, which is where the prince has his rooms before he becomes king.
The small, princely palace is two miles away from the main palace, and the entire distance between is covered with gardens. Spain in this area is hot and dry, and the gardens flourish because of the proximity to the river. There’s lots of dams and wells – a whole complicated mechanism keeps the gardens alive.
The cemetary was intriguing because it was crowded with headstones, and had niches for ashes.
