The Gardens at Aranjuez 
ENTRANCE TO THE ISLAND GARDEN 
Herrar, to construct additional buildings. 
Many ot these, however, were ere long 
destroyed by rire, and Philip IV swept away 
this part ot the town, and commenced to 
rebuild it after the French styles; but with 
Spanish irresolution he did not complete his 
work, and it was left to be finished by his 
successors. 
Great were the court gatherings now in 
this favored spot, and Aranjuez was the scene 
ARANJUEZ 
ot many a tete. According to the journal 
kept bv Lord Auckland, Ambassador to 
Charles III, the court and ministers drove 
in the principal avenues through the gardens 
every afternoon in landaus, each drawn by 
eight or ten mules, followed by tour foot¬ 
men. There was much shooting, hunting, 
and many balls, and trequent exhibitions 
of horsemanship, called parejas where the 
princes and young nobles played the most 
