El Escorial

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El Escorial municipality
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El Escorial coat of arms
El Escorial (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Madrid
Province : Madrid
Comarca : Cuenca del Guadarrama
Coordinates 40 ° 35 ′  N , 4 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 35 ′  N , 4 ° 8 ′  W
Height : 909  msnm
Area : 68.8 km²
Residents : 16,162 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 234.91 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : E-28280
Municipality number  ( INE ): 28054
administration
Official language : Castilian
Mayor : Antonio Vicente Rubio ( PP )
Website : www.elescorial.es
Location of the municipality
El Escorial (Madrid) mapa.svg

El Escorial is a municipality in the north-west of the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid . It is located in the Sierra de Guadarrama and is about 46 kilometers from the capital Madrid .

Culture

Iglesia de San Bernabé

One of the places of interest in the municipality of El Escorial is the Church of St. Barnabas (Iglesia de San Bernabé), built according to King Philip II's wishes based on designs by Francisco de Mora .

The well-known monastery and palace complex Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial , which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , as well as the Franquist Memorial Valle de los Caídos are not located in the municipality of El Escorial, but in the neighboring municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial .

Web links

Commons : El Escorial  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).