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Tourist destinations all over the world receive a lot of tourists as a result of increased publicity. Madrid tours attract a vast portion of the city’s tourist base. Madrid excursions are arranged from Madrid to the nearby places of historical importance and also other places that have importance today.
El Escorial is an easy to access and popular place in Spain. It is very close to Madrid. The El Escorial was constructed by Philip II after he moved his court to the city of Madrid, in the year of 1562. The humungous complex served as a palace, library, mausoleum and also monastery.
The special feature of the structure is that it reflects the Renaissance fashion and also austere religiosity of Philip II. El Escorial is a long, rectilinear edifice. The chief architects Juan de Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera.
The whole structure has been divided into several sewctions namely a library, basilica palace/residence, battle hall, garden, royal pantheon and also reliquary. |
