Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of
complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between
sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural
and the urban, between forest landscape and the delicately modulated
architecture of its palatial buildings. Three hundred years of royal
attention to the development and care of this landscape have seen it
express an evolution of concepts from humanism and political
centralization, to characteristics such as those found in its 18th
century French-style Baroque garden, to the urban lifestyle which
developed alongside the sciences of plant acclimatization and
stock-breeding during the Age of Enlightenment.