{"id":186,"date":"2012-10-04T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/88.84.77.135\/blog\/es\/?p=186"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T13:49:47","slug":"de-puro-capricho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/10\/04\/de-puro-capricho\/","title":{"rendered":"Purely for pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Entrance to El Capricho Park<\/p><\/div>\n

At the last Madrid Fashion Week, Josep Font, designer of the Jes\u00fas del Pozo collections, chose El Capricho Park<\/a> for his runway show. As a result, many\u00a0people discovered one of the city’s prettiest, most romantic and idyllic parks. A great unknown.
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It\u2019s hard to imagine Francisco de Goya painting his Witches\u2019 Sabbath<\/em> to hang in one of the rooms in El Capricho Palace. With its romantic atmosphere, the gardens where it stands seem an unlikely setting for housing the dark scene that can now be viewed in the L\u00e1zaro Galdiano Museum<\/a>. The painting in question was commissioned by Do\u00f1a Mar\u00eda Josefa Alonso Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna, an arts, literature and music lover, who wanted to reproduce Le Petit Trianon at Versailles in her estate, situated on what were, in those days, the outskirts of Madrid.<\/p>\n

In the late 18th century, her dreams of grandeur produced this park, which is only open at weekends and on public holidays. Its barely 14 hectares of land are home to lilacs, oak, cypress, pine… and a few monuments erected on the Duchess’s instructions. She wanted her own jetty. And she got it. Plus fountains, a pavilion dedicated to Bacchus, a shrub maze, a water well and even a beehive, opposite which she liked to sit and enjoy a drink of hot chocolate.<\/p>\n

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Fuente en el Parque de El Capricho.<\/p><\/div>\n

An interesting fact: a lot of people don\u2019t know this, but the city of Madrid has its own campsite, Camping Osuna<\/a>. And it\u2019s in a superb setting, only a stone\u2019s throw from the park. And while we\u2019re at it, another outdoor tip: very close to El Capricho, another park, Juan Carlos I, is particularly attractive. Its trees, footpaths and ponds provide a striking backdrop for its eye-catching contemporary sculptures. You can cycle round it \u2013 the bikes<\/a> are free! \u2013 although the best thing about this park is the breeze. Because it\u2019s quite high, the wind makes it an ideal place for kite flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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