In the year 1109, the Almoravid troops of the Muslim emir Ali Ben Yusuf They camped under the Alcazar with the objective of taking Madrid from the Christians. We already know the story, Ben Yusuf retired and Madrid remained Christian. That space under the Alcázar was given the name of the Moor's Field.

For centuries it continued to be a steeply sloping wasteland until in the 16th century, Felipe II He acquired the land around the castle. It became a place of celebrations for the people of Madrid. With Philip IV The most common space for celebrations became the Good retirement park, a gift from the Count Duke of Olivares to the monarch, relegating Campo del Moro to abandonment again.

Isabel II, of whom a statue is preserved on the north side of the enclosure, commissioned the chief architect of the Palace, Narciso Pascual and Colomer, create gardens that would enhance the grandeur of the Royal Palace. At that time, the central axis that connects the Palace with the banks of the Manzanares River and the two monumental fountains was built: The Tritons fountain (brought from the Palace of Aranjuez) considered the oldest monumental fountain preserved in Madrid and the Las Conchas fountain, designed by the architect Ventura Rodríguez (and from the Palace of Infante Don Luis de Boadilla del Monte) in the year 1765 and made by the sculptors Francisco Gutiérrez Arribas y Manuel Álvarez «the Greek».

Its current appearance is due to a restoration carried out in 1890, during the Regency of Mrs. Maria Cristina, when it is transformed into a romantic English landscape garden.

In the early sixties, the idea of ​​a Carriage Museum based on an initiative by Franco himself. National Heritage commissioned the building from the architect Ramon Andrade. He created a museum with a functional and modern appearance with several hexagonal buildings connected to each other next to a small pond.

Francisco Franco inaugurated it on June 28, 1967, but its life was short-lived and it closed in November 1992. The exhibition of more than 150 vintage vehicles (such as the carriages of Charles II, Alfonso XIII o prime) will be part of the future Museum of Royal Collections which is scheduled to open in 2016, a controversial project that was approved in 1998 and that has sparked various criticisms for affecting the arab wall, to the park itself and above all to the best-known silhouette of the city formed by the Royal Palace and the Cathedral of the Almudena.

A fantastic garden to take refuge from the summer heat, remember that its only access open to the public is that of Paseo Virgen del Puerto.

A abrazo.