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Jardines del Retiro ll

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1.La Rosaleda
The Major garden of the Retiro,Cecilio Rodríguez, created in 1915 la //Rosaleda del Retiro//. Carlos Prats said that they needed to do a rosaleda in differents european parks. La //Rosaleda de Bagatelle,//(in Paris), was the model to continuing. Cecilio Rodríguez travelled to Paris for studied it and bring the first roses. The elected place where it is situated the statue of the Marqués de Salamanca, that it was moved in 1876, before being moved it was situated in the palace garden that had the Marqués in the Paseo de Recoletos. Around this greenhouse was develop the rosaleda. The rosaleda was designed under an elliptical base, surrounded of cut away hedges, was full of a wide variety of roses brught of the most famous garden of Europe. But they were destroy in the Civil War. In 1041 stood firm 4.000 rosales.



2.Casa de Fieras
Casa de Fieras was been created by Ferdinand VII and improved by Elisabeth II. They were builded pavilions and in there you can find diverse varieties of birds and animals, some of them were dissected and others in cages and birdcages. There was some others cages and ditchs for animals ,such as the elephant's den, lion's den and monkeys kiosk and more cages where there inhabit real's peacock,llamas and gazelles. With the 1868 Revolution, the Retiro Park was open. During the Civil War a lot of animals died.



3.Montaña Artificial
The Montaña Artificial is an artificial mountain that was order to built by the king Ferdinand Vll in 1815. It was build in the Retiro Park just in the entrance between O'Donnel street and the Menéndez Pelayo avenue. They build this mountain for cover with a vault a tradmill which shank at a short time that it was biulded and in the top of the vault, there was a skylight that its function was of a lookout. The tradmill was in charged of carry water to the estuary to the pond where there was situated the artificial mountain. This mountain also was called the Mountain Cats, theBear Mountain or Roaller Coaster, since there were animals and there were an expansion of the Beasts House of the Retiro. Today, there is an exhibition hall inside. In its  surroundings  are the ruins of the hermitage of San Isidro and San Pelayo.

4.Estanque de las Campanillas
This pond is situated near of the Parterre. Is a pond built in XVlll,  where there was a chinese wooden tower, painted with colors and rodeated with a lot of bells that to be moved with the wind they sounded. It is one of the few parts of the park which are original. Before it was called Octagonal pond and it was situated where now is the rock.  Although it disappeared, in his memorythere is called of the bells.



5.Palacio de Velázquez
The Velázquez Palace was builded between the years 1881 and 1883 celebrating the //Exposición Nacional de Minería// The name of this Palace comes from the architect who directed the proyect, Ricardo Velázquez Bosco. Also in this proyect participated the architect Alberto del Palacio and the ceramist Daniel Zuloaga. This is a building full of vaults of  iron and glass as well it permite illuminate the room with natural light, and it is inspired in the Crystal Palace of London. With dimensions of  73.80 by 28.75 meter, it was built with two-tone bricks and tiles of //the // //Real Fábrica de La Moncloa.// The building was imaginated for when it was ended the exposition of 1883, could have other activiti instead of demolish. In 1887 it was used for the exposition of the Filipines that was celebrated in the Retiro and when it ended, the government decided to move to the Ultramar Museum. Nowadays it belongs to the Culture Ministry and they use it as a temporal exhibition room of the //Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.//

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