Garden · Madrid

Jardines del Buen Retiro

Today: Parque del Retiro, Madrid

Place: Madrid
Kind: Garden
Built: 1630 to 1640
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The gardens of the Buen Retiro palace, the pleasure residence the Count-Duke of Olivares had built for Felipe IV between 1630 and 1640 under Giovanni Battista Crescenzi and Alonso Carbonel. Of the palace, the Casón and the Salón de Reinos remain; of the garden, the great pond, Felipe V's Parterre and Fernando VII's follies. Its use as a public park began under Carlos III in 1767, and it is open all year.

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