For centuries, Spanish royals spent their spring months in this fertile valley, creating fabulous palaces and gardens that became Europe’s most important collection of cultivated trees. They incubated ideas about humanism and political centralization, landscape design, urban lifestyle, and the sciences during the Age of Enlightenment.
Inscribed as a UNESCO site in 2001, the landscape reflects the complex and historic relationships between nature and human activity and urban and rural life.
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