San Ildefonso (), La Granja (), or La Granja de San Ildefonso, is a town and
municipality in the
Province of Segovia, in the
Castile and León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain.
It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
autonomous region of central
Spain.
It is located in the foothills of the
Sierra de Guadarrama mountains, from
Segovia, and north of
Madrid.
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History
La Granja palace
"La Granja" (Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso) is a royal palace and gardens built adjacent to the town in 1721-24.[Patrimonio Nacional: La Granja]
/ref> It was commissioned by King Philip V Philip V may refer to:
* Philip V of Macedon (221–179 BC)
* Philip V of France (1293–1322)
* Philip II of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September ...
, and designed in the Spanish Baroque and French Baroque styles. It was modeled on the Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ...
, that was built by Philip's grandfather Louis XIV of France, and has been called the "Versailles of Spain." The palace is set in extensive gardens designed in the Jardin à la française style, whose epitome is the Gardens of Versailles, and beyond those surrounded in English landscape style gardens and woodlands.[
For the next two hundred years, La Granja was the court's main summer palace, until the Second Spanish Republic formed in 1931.
La Granja and the town are a popular tourist destination. The royal site is part of the Patrimonio Nacional of Spain, which holds and maintains many of the Crown's lands and palaces. It is a popular tourist attraction, with paintings, portraits, and a museum of Flemish tapestries.
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Events
Three important international treaties between Spain and France or Portugal bear the name Treaty of San Ildefonso. They were each negotiated and signed at La Granja palace between 1777 and 1800.
On 12 August 1836 at La Granja palace, some of the Liberal leaders compelled Queen Christina to sign a decree restoring the Constitution of 1812.
La Granja gallery
File:Palacio La Granja2 22-7-03.JPG, Royal Palace of La Granja
File:Palacio La Granja22-7-2003.JPG, Chapel of San Ildefonso at La Granja
File:Palacio de la Granja.jpg, Palace and gardens
File:Jardines de la Granja.jpg, Fountain in La Granja gardens
See also
* , 18th century La Granja Royal Glass Factory, now a museum
* Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso
References
External links
Patrimonio Nacional: Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso
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Municipalities in the Province of Segovia
Populated places in the Province of Segovia