With many flowers and trees, this garden also has many fountains and statues, as well as several stoves and greenhouses. The main sources are the Boticaria, Hercules and the Hydra, the Apollo, the watch, the Child of the spine, that of Venus, of Diana, of Bacchus and Neptune.
Source of Boticaria
Just enter the Garden through the bridge ramp, is the Source of the Boticaria with circular glass, with figures of children with shells and rocks. In the background, stands the imposing called Salon de los Reyes Catolicos, walking over 300 m wooded with plane trees, next to the Tagus high dam, which separates an iron railing with pedestals and vases, as in the moat of the Parterre Garden.
Fountain of Hercules and Hydra
Fountain of Hercules and Hydra, which is the first one is to cross the river by the staircase, placed on a socket and a black jasper basa of an octagonal, with a large cup and a pedestal on which is the figure of Hercules killing the hydra. Here are some iron railings and pedestals with eight others of marble figures on the edges of the square. This fountain was commissioned by Philip IV of Villarreal and Jose Bartolome Zumbigo and replaces a previous source dedicated to Diana of the time of Philip II. Sculptures placed on pedestals that existed around the fountain was purchased by Philip V and originally located in the Gardens of La Granja. After the site was placed in the columns of the main entrance to the Jardin del Principe by order of Charles IV and finally resting in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Fuente de Apolo
Fuente de Apolo (or Triptolemo) of the sixteenth century, is situated just after the Hercules, with a socket, and basa Pretil octagonal marble in the center of which is a cup with the figure of Apollo with the plant start on a dragon. Pretil can be seen in various reliefs, with one foot in each corner of Satiro. The square where is this source was previously known as the Puerta del Sol de Aranjuez, with reference to what a crowded place, by analogy with the square of the same name in Madrid.
Turning to the so-called Street Gallery, we find the Burladero, a series of nozzles placed in the soil given off by arches of water at chest height of a person.
Clock Source
This walk takes us straight to the source of the clock, also known as the Times or the ring, which is in a square flanked by six stone benches, a fountain in the center. When in operation, the shadow of the jet of water will mark the hours, as if it were a clock on the edges of the source.
Fuente del Nino de Spina
Next, the Fountain of the Spina Nino, also known as the Spinario or the Harpies, creating commissioned by Philip III, Pretil has a square with a jasper stone Corinthian columns at each corner. In the center is a pedestal with a cup on which rests a couple of stone, drawn in an attitude of a thorn in his left foot. In every corner of the source is a column, on top of which is the figure of a harpy, released water into the center of the source.
Originally, the square which is the source to turn it with a gazebo on every corner, with three banks and four Ionic columns in 1783, holding a shell of wood and lead, in 1867 dismantled the damaged one them by a falling tree.
Source Venus
Also known as Don Juan de Austria, since it is believed that the stone with which he built was achieved at the Battle of Lepanto. Located in the center of an octagonal square, consists of a large bowl with baluster and a second cup, which is a bronze figure of Venus in attitude dry hair with your hands. Was sent to Spain in Florence since 1571.
Fountain of Bacchus
Deeper in the garden, the fountain of Bacchus is in a square with hexagonal stone benches in the center of which is a circular pond of jasper. In its center a large bowl with a pedestal on which the god Bacchus, crowned with clusters of grapes and sat on a barrel with a little tap, a wine glass stands with his right arm. The body of this fountain was given to Felipe III by the Grand Duke of Florence and marble designed by Giambologna. Initially the source host would call the Philistine Sanson, who was given by Philip IV to Charles I of England in 1623 and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Finally since 1656, crowned by the figure of Bacchus, by Jonghellinck.
Neptune Fountain
The Neptune Fountain, the Italian Alessandro Algardi, is located on the far side of entrance to the Jardin.