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The St Lawrence of El Escorial
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San Lorenzo of Escorial is a city of Madrid with a historical important patrimony. Among their main monuments they are: Monastery of Escorial declared as "Monument of World" Interest by UNESCO in 1984 or the Valley of the Deads.The Real Place of San Lorenzo of Escorial is a great complex (palace, monastery, museum and library) that is in San Lorenzo of Escorial, municipality located 45 km to the northwest of Madrid, in the Community of Madrid (Spain).San Lorenzo of EscorialEl names of the Escorial he is due to some old scum deposits coming from an ironworks of the area of where he took his toponym the village located in the vicinities of the place where this monastery-palace was built and that at the present time it is the municipality of Escorial, (12.669 inhabitants in 2003), different from that of San Lorenzo of Escorial, (14.358 inhabitants in 2003), arisen later on next to the monument.Located next to the mount Vultures in Sierra of Guadarrama, this monumental complex it was ordered to build for the king Felipe II to commemorate the victory of San QuintÃn August 10 1557 on Enrique's troops II, king from France and to serve as place of burial of the remains of their parents, the emperor Carlos I and Isabel from Portugal, as well as of his and those of their successors.
Author The picture was taken by HÃ¥kan Svensson (Xauxa)
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