Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — Spain’s Magnificent Royal Palace. [ARTICLE]

Spain’s Magnificent Royal Palace.

The royal palace at Madrid Is one of the moat beautiful structures in the world, being built by an Italian architect in the early part of the last century at a cost of $5,000,000 and intended to be a rival of the French palace at Versailles. The material Is white marble. It Is 470 feet each way, with a court 240 feet square, roofed with glass. Few places are more tiresome to visit than palaces, with their long rows of gorgeously decorated chambers, gilt furniture, and everlnatlng mirrors, but the Casa Real at Madrid Is interesting, and contains a remarkable library of 100,000 volumes, also priceless papers, pictures, bronzes and marble.