El Escorial
El Escorial is a locality in El Escorial, Madrid, Community of Madrid and has about 15,800 residents and an elevation of 917 metres. El Escorial is situated nearby to the locality Valmayor, as well as near the hamlet Montemorillo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 15,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in El Escorial, Community of Madrid, Spain
- Also known as: “Escorial”
- Postal code: 28280
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biblioteca Municipal de El Escorial and Church of San Bernabé.
Biblioteca Municipal de El Escorial
Library
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Biblioteca Municipal de El Escorial is a library.
Church of San Bernabé
Church
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The Church of San Bernabé is a church located in El Escorial, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1983.
El Escorial train station
Railway station
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El Escorial train station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Escorial and Zarzalejo.
El Escorial
San Lorenzo de El Escorial is a town about 45 km northwest of Madrid in Spain. Set in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, its chief attraction is the Monastery of El Escorial, a World Heritage Site that was the power centre of the Spanish empire under King Felipe II.
Zarzalejo
Village
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Zarzalejo is a village in the Community of Madrid in Sierra Oeste. It had 1,773 inhabitants in 2022. An ancient farmstead dating from Roman times was found here. It was occupied in the second and third centuries AD. Zarzalejo is situated 6 km southwest of El Escorial.
Colmenarejo
Village
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Colmenarejo is a Spanish town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, located in the northwest of the region, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 899 meters high and 37 kilometers away from the capital. Colmenarejo is situated 10 km east of El Escorial.
El Escorial
- Categories: locality, town, and municipality capital
- Location: El Escorial, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Escorial” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إليسكوريال”
- Aragonese: “El Escorial”
- Armenian: “Էլ Էսկորիալ”
- Basque: “El Escorial”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Эскарыяль”
- Catalan: “El Escorial”
- Cebuano: “El Escorial”
- Chinese: “埃尔埃斯科里亚尔”
- French: “El Escorial”
- French: “L’Escurial”
- Galician: “El Escorial”
- German: “El Escorial”
- Greek: “Ελ Εσκοριάλ”
- Italian: “El Escorial”
- Japanese: “エル・エスコリアル”
- Korean: “엘에스코리알”
- Latin: “El Escorial”
- Persian: “ال اسکوریال”
- Polish: “El Escorial”
- Portuguese: “El Escorial”
- Russian: “Эль-Эскориаль”
- Spanish: “El Escorial”
- Spanish: “Villa de El Escorial”
- Swedish: “El Escorial”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Ескоріаль”
- “El Escorial”
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Localities in the Area
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