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  Escorial: Interior view, one of the palace salons now used as an art gallery
  

  Creator(s):

  G. Massiot & cie

  Description:

  A complex which contains a monastery, palace, school, mausoleum and museum; Philip II built the monastery 1563-1584 as a memorial to victory over French in 1557. It became his main residence and was later was the dynastic center of the Spanish Hapsburgs. The monastery was originally a property of the Hieronymite monks, it is now a monastery of the Order of Saint Augustine. The church of the monastery is the Basilica of San Lorenzo el Real.

  Date Created:

  1910-01-01

  Record Visibility:

  Public