Escorial Palace Monastery – Symphony in Stone

San Lorenzo de El Escorial is a monastery palace located 45 km from Madrid. “The Eighth Wonder of the World”, the most grandiose building of the XVI century in Europe. Located at the foot of the Guadarrama Mountains, surrounded by forests, at an altitude of 1029 m above sea level. The escorial, built by Philip II, combines a monastery, a tomb of kings and a palace. Here you will see the paintings of Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, El Greco, Luca Cambiazo, Rogier van der Weyden, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Federico Zuccaro, Luca Giordano, Bosch, the works of Italian masters Benvenuto Cellini, Giacomo Trezzo, Domenico Guido. During the tour we will visit the palace part with the apartments of Philip II, where he lived for 20 years and died in 1598, the bedroom of his daughter, the Hall of Maps, where you can see ancient maps of the XVI century. Go down to the Royal Pantheon with the burials of almost all the Habsburgs and Bourbons, starting with Charles V. The Pantheon of Princes, where members of the royal family rest. Let's go through the Hall of the Chapter and the sacristy. We will see the magnificent monastery staircase. And, of course, we will visit the Basilica of St. Lawrence with a beautiful altar and painted vaults, many sculptures and chapels. Through the court of the Kings, we ascend to the library, where Philip II collected more than 30,000 books and manuscripts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Arabic, Castilian, Latin, Hebrew. The total length of the palace-monastery is about 15 kilometers, has 2673 windows and 1200 doors. Come and see the Monoton Symphony in Stone.

For 1-3 people.