Garden · Madrid
Today: Casita del Pescador, Madrid
One of the follies Fernando VII had built in the Retiro, begun in 1817 by Isidro González Velázquez, chief palace architect. It is a Romantic cottage beside a pond. It now houses one of the park's information points.
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