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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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