Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany -- At middle is the other large fountain in front of the palace: The 188405 Fortuna fountain. The model here is not Versailles but a fountain at the royal palace La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain. That palace, near Segovia, was called the "Versailles of Spain!" European kings shared an ever more restricted set of DNA and ideas about palaces. It got them birth defects and us tourist sites.

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