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INVENTING THE ESCORIAL
2010
Overview
Foreigners who visited Spain in the century after Philip II were invariably full of praise for the extraordinary structure that the king had built in the hills of the Guadarrama. One of the earliest reports came from the Englishman John Eliot, who stated in 1593 that the ‘Esquireal’ was
the most magnificent palace of all Europe, . . . and ’tis the fairest building that I ever saw in my life . . . the most goodly, stateliest and sumptuous building that a man can imagine, a place enriched with great gardens, closes and orchards, and with the rarest fruits
