Garden · Madrid

Jardín de El Capricho

Today: Parque de El Capricho, Alameda de Osuna

Place: Madrid
Kind: Garden
Built: 1785 to 1834
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Duchess of Osuna's garden, on an estate with an orchard and a house she bought in 1783: the gardener Pablo Boutelou brought her a design the next year, the first phase was made between 1785 and 1789, and she looked after it until her death in 1834. It is the only Romantic garden left in Madrid, with its palace, being restored as a museum. The city has owned it since 1974, and it opens to the public only at weekends and on holidays, with numbers limited.

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