Garden · Madrid
Parterre del Buen Retiro
Today: Parterre del Retiro, Madrid
- Place
- Madrid
- Kind
- Garden
- Built
- c. 1724 to 1746
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The French-style garden laid out in the Retiro under Felipe V, the only part of his plan to remake the royal site that was finished. It replaced an earlier garden of eight paths, and its last remodelling dates from after the Civil War. It is entered by the Puerta de Felipe IV, opposite the Casón.
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