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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Library
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The Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, also known as the Escurialense or the Laurentina, is a large Spanish Renaissance library founded by Philip II, located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial and part of the heritage of the monastery of El Escorial.
El Escorial train station
Railway station
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Escorial train station is a railway station.
Casita del Príncipe
Museum
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The Casita del Príncipe is an eighteenth-century building located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 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.
El Escorial
Town
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El Escorial is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid, located 45 km northwest of the Spanish capital Madrid. It belongs to the comarca of Cuenca del Guadarrama.
El Escorial
- Categories: municipality of Spain, city, and locality
- Location: Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
40.5927° or 40° 35′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.1472° or 4° 8′ 50″ westPopulation
16,500Elevation
1,049 metres (3,442 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES LZOOpen location code
8CGQHVV3+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 64835892OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“El Escorial” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Arabic: “سان لورنزو دي الإسكوريال”
- Arabic: “سان لورنزو دي ش 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: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Chinese: “圣洛伦索-德埃尔埃斯科里亚尔”
- Chinese: “圣洛伦索德埃莱斯科里亚尔”
- Chinese: “聖洛倫索-德埃爾埃斯科里亞爾”
- 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: “Eskorialo”
- Esperanto: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Extremaduran: “Real Monesteriu de San Lorençu de El Escorial”
- Finnish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- French: “El Escorial”
- French: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Galician: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Georgian: “სან-ლორენსო-დე-ელ-ესკორიალი”
- German: “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: “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: “El Escorial”
- Portuguese: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Romanian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Russian: “Сан-Лоренсо-де-Эль-Эскориаль”
- Russian: “Эскориал”
- Silesian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Slovenian: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- South Azerbaijani: “سن لورنزو د ال اسکوریال”
- Spanish: “El Escorial de Arriba”
- Spanish: “El Escorial”
- Spanish: “San Lorenzo de El Escorial”
- Spanish: “San Lorenzo del 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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