Spain and Portugal for Visitors

The best guide to Aranjuez on the Net, this was once the municipal site, but for miserable political reasons is now being run as a non-official web site. On the negative side, it is slightly garish in places and has no English-language version. Click "Jardines y Palacios" for pics of the royal gardens and palaces.

Your options are by car, bus or cercanias, the local railway network for the area around the city of Madrid.

E-government-style website with no English language version, almost no tourist information and a pathetic excuse for a design.

The palace itself can be a bit of a disappointment, being huge but stolid (it is worth visiting just for the Porcelain Room and the Hall of Mirrors, though). But its garden, while not as large or as enjoyable as the neighbouring Jardín del Principe, is well worth making the trip from Madrid for. This is the official website.