Royal Observatory of Madrid

Community of Madrid · Spain

Royal Observatory of Madrid, Spain
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A Neoclassical observatory near Retiro Park, designed by Juan de Villanueva at the end of the 18th century. It houses antique instruments and a reconstructed Herschel telescope in its historic rotunda.

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