Velázquez Palace

Check out our Visitors Guides for six features of Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. Completed by IES Alfredo Kraus 1°D-ESO Global Scholars students. 

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There is an elevator for people without mobility and there are also stairs. In the bathrooms there are specific ones for the people without mobility and other specific ones for people with mobility.

The landscape in this área is great and you can stay relax in this enviroment

This landscape has a very big space were you can run, take care of the nature, relax... Also there is a park for kids where they can play, and a kiosk were you can buy food and drinks. There are public bathrooms outside.

It is also a very pretty place to take a walk and go with the family.

By: Angela del Hierro, Alba Moral, Ines Garcia and Berta Lopez.

Banana trees: Is a type of tree very common

This is some flora you can find if you come here.

These are some fauna you can find outside of the Velázquez Palace.

Inside the palace there is an exposition. In it, there are some paintings and sculptures of an artist named Mario Mers. 

These are some sculptures of the exposition.

It was constructed in the year 1883 and continues the tradition of this architecture of iron and glass for big expositions in the XIX century. This architecture combines the brick construction with the ceramic decorations. Finally it was adaptable for different uses and organizations. It was built between 1881-1883.

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