Tag: Church
Day trip from Madrid: El Escorial
The monastery at El Escorial was built on the orders of Phillip II (he’s the guy who married Mary Tudor, aka “Bloody Mary”) and was completed in 1584. We didn’t have time to get out to see it on our first trip to Madrid, so it was pretty high on our list of day trips for this go-round.
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Photos from Santa María la Real de La Almudena
Madrid’s cathedral is pretty new as those things go. Consecrated in 1993 by John Paul II, construction on Santa María la Real de La Almudena began in 1883, with Madrid becoming an bishopric in 1884 (later an archbishopric in 1964).
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