Garden
El Retiro Park
Madrid's great park, with a boating lake, the glass Crystal Palace and a rose garden.
- Editor's score
- 4.7
- Visit
- 1 h 30
- Price
- Free
About
Once the royal gardens of the Buen Retiro palace, the park opened to the public in 1868. Row a boat on the lake below the Alfonso XII monument, then visit the Crystal Palace, built in 1887 as a greenhouse.
Best time to go: Sunday mornings, when musicians and puppet shows fill the paths.
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