Casa de Campo Park

It is a huge green expanse - more than 1,500 hectares - located at the gates of Madrid. Philip II acquired this property – including a mansion and the land – in around 1560 or 1561. The estate stands opposite an outcrop overlooking the Manzanares River, and once belonged to the noble Vargas family. He later converted it into a Renaissance villa with no pretensions of representativeness but, in keeping with his sensitivity, framed by beautiful gardens. Documented descriptions and remains of buildings allow us to recreate a complex that identifies its mannerist character through its classical elements: grottos, mazes, water features, and so on, set in a verdant oasis surrounded by dense trees that were planted at the time.