While the exterior of the Palacio Real was impressive, I enjoyed the interior more but photos inside were not permitted. What amazed me was the amount of decorative detail in each room, I could have spent hours staring at the tapestries woven with gold and silver threads, or the inlaid wood floors, the floor mosaics, and statuary; I could definitely do without the porcelain room, I mean I appreciate the artistry but, um, it seemed like a big bathroom. I suppose lots of money allows one to do silly things with porcelain.
- Approaching palace
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #1
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #2 with some dude I don’t know posing for his own photo
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #3, I chose this angle to avoid posers.
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #4, trying to be clever with my camera
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #5, more cleverness
- Random shot of the square outside the palace #6, statutes in the trees with the legs of the young couple making out that almost ruined my shot.
- Sunset behind the palace
- Interior square, palace entrance
- Cathedral directly opposite palace
- Palace entrance, askew
- Forgot to ask why only one flag was flying. I’m guessing because nothing official was going on.
- Shot of cathedral outside of palace
- View of the city from the palace #1
- View of the city from the palace #2, make your own panorama 🙂