Palacio Real de El Pardo

Today: Palacio Real de El Pardo, El Pardo

Place: El Pardo
Kind: Palace
Built: 1547 to 1558
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The palace Carlos I had built from 1547, over Enrique III's hunting lodge, finished in 1558; a fire in 1604 destroyed much of it and nearly all its paintings. It was a hunting lodge of the Habsburgs and the Bourbons' winter residence, and Sabatini enlarged it between 1772 and 1778. Franco lived there; today it lodges heads of state on official visits.

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