�������t¶��

Over time, the general public was sparingly permitted access to pieces of the park, until Queen Isabella II was deposed by La Gloria — the Spanish revolution — in 1868, and all of the park’s wonders finally became open to everyone.

In one photo, a model wears the dress that Anna Paquin wore as Isabella II, the slave-owning Spanish queen in “Amistad”; her hot-pink nail polish is an electric anachronism.

But if there’s a star attraction in this subterranean gallery, it’s Pius IX’s tiara, which was a gift from Queen Isabella II of Spain.

On the 14th of November 1843 he was appointed ambassador at the court of the young Spanish queen Isabella II.

It was it that gave a prize for the best poem on the birth of the princess who was to become Isabella II of Spain; a prize which was won by a lad of sixteen.