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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid' has mentioned 'El Escorial' in the following places:
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| For other uses, see El Escorial (disambiguation). | WIKI |
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| Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El EscorialA distant view of the Royal Seat of San Lorenzo de El EscorialGeneral informationArchitectural styleHerrerianLocationSan Lorenzo de El Escorial, SpainGoverning bodyMinistry of the PresidencyDesign and constructionArchitectJuan Bautista de Toledo UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameMonastery and Site of the Escorial, MadridTypeCulturalCriteriai, ii, ivDesignated1984 (8th session)Referencexc2xa0no.318State Partyxc2xa0SpainRegionEurope and North America Spanish Property of Cultural InterestOfficial nameMonasterio de San LorenzoTypeReal propertyCriteriaMonumentDesignated3 June 1931Referencexc2xa0no.(R.I.) | WIKI |
| El Escorial, or the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Spanish: Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorial en Madrid), or Monasterio del Escorial (Spanish pronunciation:xc2xa0[el eskoxcbx88xc9xbejal]), is a historical residence of the King of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial about 45 kilometres (28 miles) northwest of the Spanish capital Madrid. | WIKI |
| It is situated 2.06xc2xa0km (1.28xc2xa0mi) up the valley (4.1xc2xa0kmxc2xa0[2.5xc2xa0mi] road distance) from the town of El Escorial. | WIKI |
| El Escorial consists of two architectural complexes of great historical and cultural significance: the royal monastery itself and La Granjilla de La Fresneda, a royal hunting lodge and monastic retreat about 5 kilometres away. | WIKI |
| [1] El Escorial was, at once, a monastery and a Spanish royal palace, although Philip II is the only monarch who ever lived in the main building. | WIKI |
| Philip II of Spain (who reigned 1556xe2x80x931598) engaged the Spanish architect Juan Bautista de Toledo to be his collaborator in the building of the complex at El Escorial. | WIKI |
| Philip appointed him architect-royal in 1559, and together they designed El Escorial as a monument to Spain's role as a center of the Christian world. | WIKI |
| On 2 November 1984, UNESCO declared The Royal Seat of San Lorenzo of El Escorial a World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| It is a popular tourist attraction, often visited by day-trippers from Madrid xe2x80x93 more than 500,000 visitors come to El Escorial every year. | WIKI |
| El Escorial. | WIKI |
| El Escorial is situated at the foot of Mount Abantos in the Sierra de Guadarrama. | WIKI |
| [4] In addition, Philip envisioned El Escorial as a center for studies in aid of the Counter-Reformation cause. | WIKI |
| To this day, la obra de El Escorial ("the work of El Escorial") is a proverbial expression for a thing that takes a long time to finish. | WIKI |
| El Escorial: floor plan, based on the floorplan of Solomon's Temple | WIKI |
| Since then, El Escorial has been the burial site for most of the Spanish kings of the last five centuries, Bourbons as well as Habsburgs. | WIKI |
| The grill-like shape, which did not fully emerge until Herrera eliminated from the original conception the six interior towers of the facade, was, by no means, unique to El Escorial. | WIKI |
| Strikingly similar to El Escorial is the layout of the Alcxc3xa1zar of Seville and the design of the Alhambra at Granada where, as at El Escorial, two courtyards in succession separate the main portal of the complex from a fully enclosed place of worship. | WIKI |
| Statues of David and Solomon on either side of the entrance to the basilica of El Escorial lend further weight to the theory that this is the true origin of the design. | WIKI |
| Echoing the same theme, a fresco in the center of El Escorial's library, a reminder of Solomonxe2x80x99s legendary wisdom, affirms Philip's preoccupation with the great Jewish king, his thoughtful and logical character, and his extraordinary monumental temple. | WIKI |
| View of El Escorial, by Michel-Ange Houasse (1723) | WIKI |
| The Temple-of-Solomon design, if indeed it was the basis for El Escorial, was extensively modified to accommodate the additional functions and purposes Philip II intended the building to serve. | WIKI |
| Beyond being a monastery, El Escorial is also a pantheon, a basilica, a convent, a school, a library, and a royal palace. | WIKI |
| Built primarily from locally quarried gray granite, square and sparsely ornamented, El Escorial is austere, even forbidding, in its outward appearance, seemingly more like a fortress than a monastery or palace. | WIKI |
| [8] The library contains thousands of priceless manuscripts; for example, the collection of the sultan, Zidan Abu Maali, who ruled Morocco from 1603 to 1627, is housed at El Escorial. | WIKI |
| The first thing one finds upon arriving at El Escorial is the main faxc3xa7ade. | WIKI |
| View of El Escorial from the Seat of Philip II | WIKI |
| Dome of the Basilica of El Escorial | WIKI |
| The basilica of San Lorenzo el Real, the central building in the El Escorial complex, was originally designed, like most of the late Gothic cathedrals of Western Europe, to take the form of a Latin cross. | WIKI |
| Clearly Juan Bautista de Toledo's experience with the dome of St. Peter's basilica in Rome influenced the design of the dome of San Lorenzo el Real at El Escorial. | WIKI |
| However, the Roman dome is supported by ranks of tapered Corinthian columns, with their extravagant capitals of acanthus leaves and their elaborately fluted shafts, while the dome at El Escorial, soaring nearly one hundred metres into the air, is supported by four heavy granite piers connected by simple Romanesque arches and decorated by simple Doric pilasters, plain, solid, and largely unprepossessing. | WIKI |
| It would not be a flight of fancy to interpret St. Peter's as the quintessential expression of Baroque sensuality and the basilica at El Escorial as a statement of the stark rigidity and grim purposefulness of the Inquisition, the two sides of the Counter-Reformation. | WIKI |
| [10] Consequently, Philip consulted his foreign ambassadors for recommendations, and the result was a lengthy parade of the lesser European artists of that time, all swanning through the construction site at El Escorial seeking the king's favor. | WIKI |
| There are two pudrideros at El Escorial, one for the Pantheon of the Kings and the other for the Pantheon of the Princes. | WIKI |
| All of the wood used in El Escorial comes from the ancient forests of Sagua La Grande, on the so-called Golden Coast of Cuba. | WIKI |
| Upon his death in October 2015, his funeral was held at El Escorial and his body placed in the pudridero, awaiting future interment in the pantheon. | WIKI |
| The library of El Escorial. | WIKI |
| The Library, like everything else in El Escorial, forms part of a larger symbolic structure and has symbolic meaning functioning within it. | WIKI |
| The king assigned specific ambassadors charged with traveling through his Empire and neighboring kingdoms searching and buying the best acquisitions for El Escorial's library. | WIKI |
| Not all of those books are still in El Escorial since many ended up in the Vatican, but around a thousand of them can still be found there. | WIKI |
| In addition to continuing the search for and purchase of especially valuable and old books, he promulgated a new decree according to which the library of El Escorial ought to receive a copy of every book published inside the Empire. | WIKI |