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El Escorial

El Escorial is a municipality in the , located 45 km northwest of the Spanish capital . It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca del Guadarrama.
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  • Type: Town with 9,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid
  • Also known as: “28054”, “El Escorial, Madrid”, and “Escorial, El”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include El Escorial train station and Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Library
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The , also known as the Escurialense or the Laurentina, is a large Spanish Renaissance library founded by Philip II, located in and part of the heritage of the monastery of El Escorial.

Museum
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The is an eighteenth-century building located in , Spain. It was designed by the neoclassical architect Juan de Villanueva for the private use of the heir to the Spanish throne Charles, Prince of Asturias, and his wife Maria Luisa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Escorial and Zarzalejo.

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San Lorenzo de is a town about 45 km northwest of in . Set in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, its chief attraction is the Monastery of , a World Heritage Site that was the power centre of the Spanish empire under King Felipe II.

Village
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is a village in the 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. is situated 6 km southwest of El Escorial.

El Escorial

Latitude
40.5836° or 40° 35′ 1″ north
Longitude
-4.1281° or 4° 7′ 41″ west
Population
9,200
Elevation
852 metres (2,795 feet)
Open location code
8CGQHVMC+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 64835924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6359280
Wiki­data ID
Q985269
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“El Escorial” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إليسكوريال، مدريد”
  • Arabic: “إليسكوريال”
  • Aragonese: “El Escorial”
  • Armenian: “Էլ Էսկորիալ”
  • Asturian: “El Escorial”
  • Azerbaijani: “El-Eskorial”
  • Basque: “El Escorial”
  • Belarusian: “Эль-Эскарыяль”
  • Catalan: “El Escorial”
  • Cebuano: “El Escorial”
  • Cebuano: “Escorial”
  • Chechen: “Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Chinese: “El Escorial”
  • Chinese: “埃尔埃斯科里亚尔”
  • Chinese: “埃莱斯科里亚尔”
  • Chinese: “埃萊斯科里亞爾”
  • Czech: “El Escorial”
  • Dagbani: “El Escorial”
  • Danish: “El Escorial”
  • Dimli (individual language): “El Escorial”
  • Dutch: “El Escorial”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليسكوريال”
  • Esperanto: “El Escorial”
  • French: “Commune de l’Escorial”
  • French: “El Escorial”
  • French: “L’Escurial”
  • Galician: “O Escorial, Madrid”
  • Galician: “O Escorial”
  • Georgian: “ელ-ესკორიალი”
  • German: “El Escorial”
  • Greek: “Ελ Εσκοριάλ”
  • Hebrew: “אל אסקוריאל”
  • Hungarian: “El Escorial”
  • Indonesian: “El Escorial, Madrid”
  • Indonesian: “El Escorial”
  • Interlingua: “El Escorial”
  • Interlingue: “El Escorial”
  • Irish: “El Escorial”
  • Italian: “El Escorial”
  • Japanese: “エル・エスコリアル”
  • Korean: “엘에스코리알”
  • Ladin: “El Escorial”
  • Ladino: “El Escorial”
  • Lithuanian: “El Eskorialis”
  • Lombard: “El Escorial (Spagna)”
  • Lombard: “El Escorial”
  • Luxembourgish: “El Escorial”
  • Malay: “El Escorial, Madrid”
  • Malay: “El Escorial”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Escorial”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “El Escorial”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “El Escorial”
  • Persian: “ال اسکوریال”
  • Polish: “El Escorial”
  • Portuguese: “El Escorial”
  • Portuguese: “San lorenzo del escorial”
  • Russian: “Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Slovenian: “El Escorial”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ال اسکوریال”
  • Spanish: “El Escorial de Abajo”
  • Spanish: “El Escorial”
  • Swedish: “El Escorial, Madrid”
  • Swedish: “El Escorial”
  • Tatar: “Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Turkish: “El Escorial”
  • Ukrainian: “Ель-Ескоріаль”
  • Uzbek: “El Escorial”
  • Venetian: “El Escorial (Spagna)”
  • Venetian: “El Escorial”
  • Vietnamese: “El Escorial, Madrid”
  • Vietnamese: “El Escorial”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Escorial, Madrid”
  • Waray (Philippines): “El Escorial”

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