La Granja de San Ildefonso

San Ildefonso Real Sitio de San Ildefonso
Municipality
Iglesia de los Dolores
Coat of arms
San Ildefonso Location in Spain
Coordinates: 40°54′N 4°0′W / 40.900°N 4.000°W / 40.900; -4.000
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Segovia
Comarca	Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia
Government
• Mayor	Jose Luis Vázquez Fernández
Area
• Total	145 km2 (56 sq mi)
Elevation	1,193 m (3,914 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	5,702
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Granjeños
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	40100
Website	Official website

San Ildefonso, or La Granja, or La Granja de San Ildefonso, is a town and municipality in the Province of Segovia, in the Castile and León Autonomous region of central Spain.

It is located in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Segovia, and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Madrid.

"La Granja" (Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso) is a royal palace and gardens built adjacent to the town in 1721-24. It was commissioned by King Philip V, and designed in the Spanish Baroque and French Baroque styles. It was modeled on the Palace of Versailles, that was built by Philip's grandfather Louis XIV of France, and has been called the "Versailles of Spain." The palace is set in extensive gardens designed in the Jardin à la française style, whose epitome is the Gardens of Versailles, and beyond those surrounded in English landscape style gardens and woodlands.

For the next two hundred years, La Granja was the court's main summer palace, until the Second Spanish Republic formed in 1931.

La Granja and the town are a popular tourist destination. The royal site is part of the Patrimonio Nacional of Spain, which holds and maintains many of the Crown's lands and palaces. It is a popular tourist attraction, with paintings, portraits, and a museum of Flemish tapestries.