El Escorial
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El Escorial, once the favoured royal residence and an extreme example of excess that almost bankrupted the nation.  However, several centuries later at least we are left with a magnificent if rather austere edifice, monastery and palace.

STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION...the web page not the monastery, obviously?

 

       
       
   

 

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