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The Royal Palace of Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain, located in the town of Aranjuez
Aranjuez

Aranjuez is a town in the southern part of the Autonomous Community of Community of Madrid in central Spain and lies 48 km south of the city of Madrid....
 (province of Madrid). The palace is open to the public as one of the Spanish royal sites
Spanish royal sites

The royal sites are a set of palaces, monastery, and convents built for and under the patronage of the Spanish monarchy. They are administered by Patrimonio Nacional , a Spanish state agency; most are open to the public, at least in part, except when they are needed for state or official events....
.

It was commissioned by Philip II
Philip II of Spain

Philip II was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, List of monarchs of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king consort of England, as husband of Mary I of England, from 1554 to 1558, lord of the Seventeen Provinces from 1556 until 1581, holding various titles for the individual territories, such as Duke or Count; and King of Portugal as Philip I...
 and designed by Juan Bautista de Toledo
Juan Bautista de Toledo

Juan Bautista de Toledo. Spanish architect educated in Italy, in the Italian High Renaissance. As many Italian renaissance architects, he had experience in both architecture and military and civil public works....
 and Juan de Herrera
Juan de Herrera

Juan de Herrera was a Spain architect, mathematician and geometrician.One of the most outstanding Spanish architects in the 16th century, Herrera represents the peak of the Spanish Renaissance....
, who also designed El Escorial
El Escorial

El Escorial is an historical residence of the king of Spain. It is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery, royal palace, museum and school....
. It was completed during the reign of Ferdinand VI
Ferdinand VI of Spain

Ferdinand VI, , list of Spanish monarchs from 1746 until his death, fourth son of Philip V of Spain, founder of the Spanish House of Bourbon dynasty , by his first marriage with Maria Louisa of Savoy, was born at Madrid on September 23 1713....
; Charles III
Charles III of Spain

Charles III was list of Spanish monarchs 1759?88 , King of Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily 1735?59 , and Duchy of Parma 1732?35 . He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism....
 had two wings added to it.

The huge gardens, built to relieve its royal residents from the dust and drought of the Spanish meseta using the waters of the adjacent Tagus
Tagus

The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon....
 and Jarama
Jarama

Jarama is a river in central Spain. It flows north to south, and passes east of Madrid when El Atazar Dam is built on a tributary, the Lozoya River....
 rivers, are Spain's most important of the Habsburg period.






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The Royal Palace of Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain, located in the town of Aranjuez
Aranjuez

Aranjuez is a town in the southern part of the Autonomous Community of Community of Madrid in central Spain and lies 48 km south of the city of Madrid....
 (province of Madrid). The palace is open to the public as one of the Spanish royal sites
Spanish royal sites

The royal sites are a set of palaces, monastery, and convents built for and under the patronage of the Spanish monarchy. They are administered by Patrimonio Nacional , a Spanish state agency; most are open to the public, at least in part, except when they are needed for state or official events....
.

It was commissioned by Philip II
Philip II of Spain

Philip II was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, List of monarchs of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king consort of England, as husband of Mary I of England, from 1554 to 1558, lord of the Seventeen Provinces from 1556 until 1581, holding various titles for the individual territories, such as Duke or Count; and King of Portugal as Philip I...
 and designed by Juan Bautista de Toledo
Juan Bautista de Toledo

Juan Bautista de Toledo. Spanish architect educated in Italy, in the Italian High Renaissance. As many Italian renaissance architects, he had experience in both architecture and military and civil public works....
 and Juan de Herrera
Juan de Herrera

Juan de Herrera was a Spain architect, mathematician and geometrician.One of the most outstanding Spanish architects in the 16th century, Herrera represents the peak of the Spanish Renaissance....
, who also designed El Escorial
El Escorial

El Escorial is an historical residence of the king of Spain. It is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery, royal palace, museum and school....
. It was completed during the reign of Ferdinand VI
Ferdinand VI of Spain

Ferdinand VI, , list of Spanish monarchs from 1746 until his death, fourth son of Philip V of Spain, founder of the Spanish House of Bourbon dynasty , by his first marriage with Maria Louisa of Savoy, was born at Madrid on September 23 1713....
; Charles III
Charles III of Spain

Charles III was list of Spanish monarchs 1759?88 , King of Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily 1735?59 , and Duchy of Parma 1732?35 . He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism....
 had two wings added to it.

The huge gardens, built to relieve its royal residents from the dust and drought of the Spanish meseta using the waters of the adjacent Tagus
Tagus

The Tagus is the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula. It measures 1,038 kilometers in length, 716 km of which are in Spain, 47 km as border between Portugal and Spain and the remaining 275 km in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon....
 and Jarama
Jarama

Jarama is a river in central Spain. It flows north to south, and passes east of Madrid when El Atazar Dam is built on a tributary, the Lozoya River....
 rivers, are Spain's most important of the Habsburg period. The Jardín de la Isla is on a man-made island bounded by the River Tagus and the Ria Canal. The Jardín del Principe contains a miniature palace (the Casa del Labrador, built for Charles IV
Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV was list of Spanish monarchs from December 14, 1788 until his abdication on March 19, 1808....
) and the Museo de las Falúas Reales, housing the most important extant collection of Spain's royal pleasure barge
Pleasure barge

A pleasure barge is a flat bottomed, slow moving boat used for leisure. It is contrasted with a standard barge, which is used to transport freight....
s.

The Concierto de Aranjuez
Concierto de Aranjuez

The Concierto de Aranjuez is a musical composition for classical guitar and orchestra by the spanish people composer Joaqu?n Rodrigo. Written in 1939 in music, it is probably Rodrigo's best-known work, and its success established his reputation as one of the most significant Spanish composers of the twentieth century....
 is a composition
Composition

Composition can refer to:* fallacy of composition, a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property...
 for classical guitar
Classical guitar

The classical guitar, also known as the "Spanish guitar", and in more recent times as the "nylon string guitar" ? is a plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones....
 and orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
  written by Spanish
Spanish people

Spanish people or Spaniards are a nation or ethnic group native to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe. They are often considered an amalgam of different ethnic groups, rather than an ethnic group by itself....
 composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaqu?n Rodrigo Vidre was a composer of european classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being blind from an early age, he achieved great success....
, who was inspired by the palace gardens. The work attempts to take the listener through sounds of nature in and around the gardens during the period it was written in.

The palace's important art and historical collections include the Museo de la Vida en Palacio, describing the daily lives of Spain's monarchs.

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