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San Lorenzo de El Escorial is its full name, but everyone in Madrid refers to it as just El Escorial. Visitworthy mainly for the Royal Seat, an immense, slightly grim, sixteenth-century affair, though El Escorial is also a place to go to get out of Madrid and get a little fresh air.

The Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
The tremendous Royal Seat of El Escorial, built by Philip II, is a place which inspires awe rather than affection. It is half-monastery, half-palace. Watch out for the opening hours - it closes at 5.00 p.m. in winter and 6.00 p.m. in summer. These pages are part of the enormous, near flawless site of Patrimonio Nacional, Crown Heritage.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial Home Page
Scrappy site but covering the essential sights of S.L. de El Escorial - the monastery/palace and the sinister Valle de los Caídos nearby, built after the Civil War by slave labour.

Valle de los Caídos
The Benadictine abbey of the Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos (Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen), supposedly a tribute to the fallen on both sides (an outrageous lie, considering it was built by slave labour), contains the tombs of Franco and Primo de Rivera and is one of the strangest, most sinister sights you are ever likely to see. Visiting it is like being kidnapped by aliens.

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