{"id":9249,"date":"2026-06-20T23:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:07:30","slug":"spain-day-3-palacio-real-de-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/20\/spain-day-3-palacio-real-de-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain, day 3 \u2014 Palacio Real de Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We visited the Royal Palace on Saturday afternoon. It was pretty over-the-top. Over 3000 rooms. Gilded everything. Frescoes on the ceilings. Enormous paintings. All the things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also an armory, but I\u2019ll post those pics separately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The two close-ups of the ceiling corners (before the piano)are worth looking at more closely. The artist combined 2D and 3D techniques to make some of the painted figures in the fresco become sculpted plaster as they crossed onto the wall.
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We visited the Royal Palace on Saturday afternoon. It was pretty over-the-top. Over 3000 rooms. Gilded everything. Frescoes on the ceilings. Enormous paintings. All the things. There was also an armory, but I\u2019ll post those pics separately. The two close-ups of the ceiling corners (before the piano)are worth looking at more closely. The artist combined … Continue reading Spain, day 3 \u2014 Palacio Real de Madrid<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[51,144,13],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-travel","tag-pictures","tag-spain","tag-vacation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_2578-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9262,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}