San Lorenzo de El Escorial

San Lorenzo de El Escorial 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 El Escorial, a World Heritage Site that was the power centre of the Spanish empire under King Felipe II.
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Places of Interest

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

Library
Photo: Xauxa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

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.

Town
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is a municipality in the , located 45 km northwest of the Spanish capital . It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca del Guadarrama.

Village
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is a village in the in Sierra Oeste, near . 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 5 km southwest of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Latitude
40.589° or 40° 35′ 20″ north
Longitude
-4.148° or 4° 8′ 53″ west
Population
18,500
Elevation
939 metres (3,081 feet)
Open location code
8CGQHVQ2+JQ
Geo­Names ID
6359352
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“San Lorenzo de El Escorial” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Arabic: “سان لورنزو دي الإسكوريال”
  • Aragonese: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Armenian: “Սան Լորենսո դե Էլ Էսկորիալ”
  • Asturian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Basque: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Belarusian: “Сан-Ларэнса-дэ-Эль-Эскарыяль”
  • Breton: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Catalan: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Cebuano: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Chechen: “Сан-Лоренсо-де-Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Chinese: “圣洛伦索-德埃尔埃斯科里亚尔”
  • Czech: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Danish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Dimli (individual language): “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Dutch: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سان لورنزو دى ش الاسكوريال”
  • Esperanto: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Extremaduran: “Real Monesteriu de San Lorençu de El Escorial”
  • Finnish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • French: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Galician: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • German: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Greek: “Σαν Λορέντζο του Ελ Εσκοριάλ”
  • Hebrew: “סן לורנסו דה אל אסקוריאל”
  • Hungarian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Interlingua: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Interlingue: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Irish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Italian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Japanese: “サン・ロレンソ・デ・エル・エスコリアル”
  • Korean: “산로렌소데엘에스코리알”
  • Ladin: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Latvian: “Sanlorenso de Eleskoriala”
  • Lithuanian: “San Lorenso de El Eskorialis”
  • Lombard: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Luxembourgish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Macedonian: “Сан Лоренсо де Ел Ескоријал”
  • Malagasy: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Malay: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Persian: “سن لورنزو د ال اسکوریال”
  • Polish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Portuguese: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Romanian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Russian: “Сан-Лоренсо-де-Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Silesian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Slovenian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سن لورنزو د ال اسکوریال”
  • Spanish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Swedish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Tatar: “Сан-Лоренсо-де-Эль-Эскориаль”
  • Turkish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Лоренсо-де-Ель-Ескоріаль”
  • Uzbek: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Venetian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Vietnamese: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”

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