Island Garden Aranjuez Part 2 1. Fountain of the Clock. This walk takes you directly to the clock source, also known as the Hours or the Ring,which is in a square, flanked by six stone benches, a fountain in the center. When inoperation, the shadow of running water is marking the hours, as if it were a clock onthe edges of the source. 2. Island´s Garden Statues. 3. Island´s garden views. Links related to Island Garden Aranjuez Part 1: Island Garden Aranjuez Part 1 King´s Garden and Philip II’s statue [...]

Island Garden Aranjuez Part 1 This garden, named for being surrounded on three sides by the Tagus River andsouth by an artificial river, lies north of the Palacio Real. 1. Origin. Its origin dates back to the Order of Santiago, which between 1387 and 1409 built apalace mistral, the predecessor of the present palace. Since that time we built a canalor building a bend in the river Tagus, which stood various mills and watermills. Whenin 1487 Ferdinand became Grand Master of the Order of Queen Isabel the Catholic,grew on the island, which became known as Queen’s Garden. Later Carlos I andFelipe II decided to turn the area into a natural setting and take it to its peak. “… The Lord Don Felipe III was repairing those sources and put some of those nowthere. This was discovered a marble quarry in Villarrobledo in La Mancha, the year of1604, where stands were removed and other stones the piles or ponds of them ….” Juan Antonio Alvarez de Quindós, Historical Overview of Forest and Casa Real de Aranjuez 2. Fountains. [...]