La Zarzuela Palace, Madrid

[Toledo]

One of the Zarzuela anecdotes I recall hearing about when I was a kid in Spain was that Juan Carlos used to scare the hell out of visitors because of his pet cat running around the rooms unsupervised. This 'cat' was a Cheetah gifted to him by a foreign government.

I wonder what happened to him or if he ended later at the Madrid Zoo, which as a sad anecdote was a place where I got lost around age 5 when I wandered away from my family maybe in '65 or '66, before the king had his Cheetah pet.

 

[Blog Real]

"Alexander Distributes Wealth Among His Friends", a tapestry by Jakob Geubels II and Jan Raes, from the late 16th century, located in the Audience Chamber.

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