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After nine years in Spain one of my favorite places is the fountains of La Granja in San Ildefonso built by Felipe V. Its not too far just over the mountains north of Madrid in Segovia. It’s a great day trip and I seem to visit every year a few times. The drive is beautiful if you go over the pass at Navacerrada, it’s a windy way through pine forest with amazing views until you get to the village of San Ildefonso. As if out of nowhere you stumble across this summer palace built in 1724 and its surrounded by gardens, fountains and forest.
This time I decided to bring a friend from London to see the fountain working illuminated at night. The fountains are a piece of art even when they are not running, but illuminated at night they are really something quite special and not too many people know about them.
The fountains only run at specific hours and on specific days during the summer. In this case the fountain is turned on at 10pm and runs for almost an hour. We decided to leave Madrid around 6:30pm arriving with enough sunlight to show my friend the palace and gardens. To see the entire grounds you really need several hours so I would get there earlier. At 9pm the grounds close so we took a walk not to far away and sat in a terrace and tried some of the local specialties and of course a bottle of wine until the ground opened again for the evening show.
La Granja makes a great day trip from Madrid, giving a chance to cool off in the summer. For all the latest opening hours and dates the fountains are functioning you take a look at the webpage for Patromonio Nacional.
After nine years in Spain one of my favorite places is the palace La Granja in San Ildefonso built by Felipe V. Its not too far just over the mountains north of Madrid in Segovia. Its a great day trip and I seem to visit every year a few times. The drive is beautiful if you go over the pass at Navacerrada, its a windy way through pine forest with amazing views until you get to the village of San Ildefonso. And there is this amazing palace built in 1724 surrounded by gardens, fountains and forest.
This time I decided to bring a friend from London to see the fountain working illuminated at night. The fountains are a piece of art even if they are not working, by when running and illuminated at night they are really something quite special and not too many people know about them. Its best just to show you
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