Royal Palace of Riofrío, La Losa, Segovia province, Spain, 1898. The war between Spain and the United States in 1898 was a result of the US intervention in the Cuban war of Independence. Queen Regent Maria Christina of Habsburg-Lorraine ordered the palace to be used as sanatorium for repatriated soldiers. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana", 1898.
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