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Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid
<img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_318.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>Built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of the martyrdom of St Lawrence, the Escurial Monastery stands in an exceptionally beautiful site in Castile. Its austere architecture, a break with previous styles, had a considerable influence on Spanish architecture for more than half a century. It was the retreat of a mystic king and became, in the last years of Philip II's reign, the centre of the greatest political power of the time.
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