The guide book failed to explain the purpose of this building - a potting shed, a summer house, a tea room?The Gorse Fox suspects it was a summer house where, exhausted from walking a few hundred metres from the Palace, the royal personages could rest in the shade and quaff a shandy before heading back.
The gardens really were magnificent and clearly very well kept by a small army of gardeners (as opposed to an army of small gardeners).
Back at the Palace we checked out a grotto that GF had missed the first time round. He suspects that this is the old baths that are now covered by Patio del Crucero.
Even as we headed back out of the Palace, there was a further courtyard in which the visitor could hide from the sun. (You'll notice the top of La Giralda poking up above the roofline).
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