San Lorenzo de El Escorial Travel Blogs

The plan for this day was El Escorial near Madrid with the great Palace/monastery. We went there by cercanias (suburban train) in the morning. Unfortunately it was not the best weather - i mean no sun, but we were lucky anyway coz it didnt rain, so... pretty cool! (and no snow or temperatures …

A fellow grad student who I met in Barcelona emailed me one day with some news. She was doing research in the monastic library at El Escorial and had happened upon a 14th-century manuscript containing copies of royal letters pertinent to my dissertation topic. Since I was heading up to Madrid for t…

Wikipedia details: The valley that contains the monument, preserved as a national park, is located 10 km northeast of the royal site of El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. Beneath the valley floor lie the remains of 40,000, whose names are accounted for in the monument's register. Although the val…

Different cities in Spain

Today I decided to go a little farther from Madrid, actually on the outskirts of the "Comunidad de Madrid" area. As routine I rode the metro to the "Atocha" station, and from there boarded a train bound for El Escorial (named after the palace there). In this town you find one of the biggest palaces…

Blog del viaje de 7 dias a la zona norte y central de Portugal, incluyendo Lisboa.

Fun filled vacation in Spain from March 16-24th. Major cities visited - Madrid and Barcelona. Day trips to El Escorial, Segovia and Monteserrat. Major sights visited - Royal Palace, Picasso Museum, La Sagrada Familia and Much Much More!