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The Aranjuez Cultural Landscape is a singular entity of complex and historic relationships between nature and human activity, the sinuous watercourses of the rivers and the geometrical design of the landscape, urban and rural life, and between the forest wildlife and the refined architecture.
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Aranjuez Cultural Landscape represents a varied landscape design developed over centuries. It started out as the Royal Site of King Philip II in the 16th century, with a private country palace and extensive waterworks using the waters of the adjacent Tagus and Jarama rivers.
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the delicately modulated architecture of its palatial buildings.
The Aranjuez Cultural Landscape clearly illustrates the complex relationship between nature and humans who, far from destroying it, have helped, with their intervention, to preserve and...
Aranjuez has always been an attractive city for tourists with its Royal Palace, the gardens, the Tagus river and the landscapes. In 2001 this city was designated as a World Heritage Cultural landscape by UNESCO , and since then, tourism has kept on increasing until hit by the 2008 recession.
Aranjuez Cultural Landscape, Spain. Madrid, Spain. In a fertile valley formed by the Tajo and Jarama River basins, the vast gardens of Spain's Aranjuez Palace became the site of Europe's most important collection of cultivated trees. Declared a royal site for the Spanish Crown in the late 15th century, this seminal cultural and scientific ...
The Aranjuez Cultural Landscape is a singular entity of complex and historic relationships between nature and human activity, the sinuous watercourses of the rivers and the geometrical design of the landscape, urban and rural life, and between the forest wildlife and the refined architecture.
