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Updated: June 11, 2025
When the Bourbons came down from France there was a little flurry of construction under Philip V., but he never finished his palace in the Plaza del Oriente, and was soon absorbed in constructing his castle in cloud-land on the heights of La Granja. The only real ruler the Bourbons ever gave to Spain was Charles III., and to him Madrid owes all that it has of architecture and civic improvement.
They had never thought of that before. "Caramba!" said they. "We don't know. They say it is a good thing, and will raise our pay and make salt cheaper." Their political economy was somewhat flimsy, but they had the bayonets, and the queen was compelled to give way and proclaim the constitution. I must add one trifling reminiscence more of La Granja, which has also its little moral.
But the waters at Versailles bear no comparison with those of La Granja. The sense is fatigued and bewildered here with their magnificence and infinite variety. The vast reservoir in the bosom of the mountain, filled with the purest water, gives a possibility of more superb effects than have been attained anywhere else in the world.
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