Royal Palace of Olite

The Palace of the Kings of Navarre of Olite or Royal Palace of Olite is a castle-palace in the town of Olite, in Navarre, Spain. It was a residence of the kings and queens of the Kingdom of Navarre until the kingdom's union with Castile in the 16th century; its most important transformations date from the reign of Charles III "the Noble" (1387 to 1425). It is the most visited tourist site in Navarre. Surely there is no king with a more beautiful castle or palace and with so many gilded rooms (...) it could not say or even could imagine how magnificent and sumptuous is this palace (...) The palace was largely destroyed during the Peninsular War: in 1813 the guerrilla general Espoz y Mina set it on fire to prevent its occupation by French forces. It was restored in the 20th century by the provincial government of Navarre, following a project by the brothers José and Javier Yárnoz Larrosa, and was declared a National Monument in 1925.