The next day I was more or less wandering around on my own. I decided to go to the Royal Palace first which turned out to be a good call… when I left the line was wrapped around the building.
Here is me in front of a fountain in the gardents near the Palace
The palace was AMAZING! I got to see the royal armory with real armor from the 1500s, the armor for the horses, and even the child-armor of famous past kings like Phillip the II and Carlos V. It was very impressive, but unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures. I also saw the Royal Pharmacy which had hundreds of bottles heavily decorated and with all kinds of crazy remedies from back in the day and some of the old alchemy tools as well.
Here is the "plaza" of sorts inside the palace walls. On the right is the main palace building with the important rooms, and on the left was a gorgeous overlook.
I went into the main part of the palace and it turned out that I couldn’t do a guided tour since I had a student discount, but since the tours were going through the same area I just sort of tagged along random ones as I went along. First an English tour, then a Spanish tour, and then I hopped on another one that I could understand but I was having a bit more trouble with it…. Turns out it was because it was Italian. It was cool to find out that I can understand my fair share of Italian too though. The palace was REALLY amazing though, with the most ornate decoration and paintings imaginable. I even saw a couple more Goya paintings that remained in the Palace that I recognized which was a nice surprise.
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