La oficina de destilación de aguas y aceites del Real sitio de Aranjuez (1564-1721)

Abstract

In September of 1564, the agency of distillation of the Royal Place of Aranjuez began its operation under the control of the Royal House of H.M. Felipe II. The Works and Woods Board, body entrusted with the management and the keeping of the royal houses and gardens, as well as of the new buildings of the Spanish Royal House, dealt with its financing and control. The governor of Aranjuez and the doctors of Chamber were in charge of the successive selection of the distillers, who got their appointment as royal servants by a Royal Doccument signed by the monarch. In this article, the works of distillation that were made there and the distillers, that carried at them, until its disappearance, in 1721, are described. The Royal Pharmacy of Felipe V assumed, in that year, the work of the distillation.