Jardín del Capricho

This guide to the Jardín del Capricho in Madrid starts with the Duchess of Osuna, who bought this land in 1787 and spent decades filling it with follies, a maze, a lake and a dance pavilion built purely for pleasure, work that outlasted her own life. It then drops fifty feet underground to a command bunker engineers dug beneath the garden in 1937, during the siege of Madrid in the Spanish Civil War, and describes the scale of tunnels built into the hillside. Picture the statues and strollers above while that bunker was in use below.