After visiting the rose garden in El Retiro, we wanted to see the Crystal Palace (Palacio de Cristal), but sadly it was being renovated. The pond beside it was pretty, though.
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| some fountain that we walked past |
Then we came to the biggest body of water in the park, appropriately named Estanque Grande del Retiro (estanque grande meaning "large pond").
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| see how big it is... |
And then we zoom in bit by bit. :P
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| plenty of these mandarin ducks around |
We walked over to the left side of the pond (from where we approached). There was this large harp sitting on a bench. I guess its owner went away for a while...
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| taking a photo from this side of the pond |
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| zoomed out |
We had come in to the park from the south-west, walking east till we reached the rose garden. Then we went north to the Crystal Palace and then this great pond. Now we walked west away from the pond, through a path of statues (Paseo de las Estatuas) towards one of the exits.
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| a photo from a slightly higher angle, to be able to see the shape of the hedges |
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| the gate |
This is one of the more famous gates to the park, called the Spain Gate. We weren't the only ones taking photos there!
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| just adding one more photo to show the lovely flower bush on both sides of the gate |
That's all for this park! If we had had extra time with nothing to do, this could have been a repeat destination, because there was still so much of the park that we hadn't seen. But we had seen the main things, so it wasn't a priority. And we did find enough things to do in the upcoming days.
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