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SCHEDULE	Check availability and schedules on the calendar. Departures: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday TIME: 2:30 p.m. NOT OPERATING: December 24, 25, 31 and January 1, 5 and 6
PRESENTATION	Learn the history of the Kings of Spain Enjoy the Monastery of El Escorial, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO Admire the enormous Basilica of El Valle de los Caidos
DURATION	5 hrs 30 mins
MEETING
RELEASE
CANCELATION
CLOSING SALES
LANGUAGE	Spanish and English bilingual tour

Highights

Comfortable excursion from Madrid to Escorial by VIP Class luxury bus with several pick-up points and accompanying guide to visit El Escorial and its imposing Royal Monastery declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as well as such as the monumental complex of the Valley of the Fallen located a few kilometers away, in another beautiful enclave of the Madrid mountains.
After approximately an hour of travel enjoying of the landscape that the Sierra de Madrid gives us, we begin the tour to El Escorial with the guided visit to the Royal Monastery of Escorial that Felipe II ordered. build as a Residence and Royal Pantheon. A symbol of the greatness of the Spanish Empire, the palace-monastic complex is an impressive construction of great historical-artistic and architectural value that houses jewels such as the Basilica, the Pantheon with the tombs of almost all the Kings of Spain since Emperor Charles V, the Royal Library or the palace rooms occupied by the different reigning dynasties.
After the guided tour of El Escorial we will have time to have lunch before continue the route towards the nearby Cuelgamuros Valley where the highest Christian cross in the world (150 meters) announces the location of the Valley of the Fallen, an extraordinary and controversial work of architecture, sculpture and engineeringerected in honor of those who fell in the Civil War that gave way to a long period of dictatorship in Spain. We visited the interior of the basilica excavated in the rock and admired the grandeur of the monumental complex and the natural setting that houses it, a protected natural space of great ecological value and singular landscape beauty. stica.

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Long description

This tour from Madrid to El Escorial that also includes a visit to the Valley of the Fallen is one of the essential tours near Madrid. An unforgettable experience in a unique place for architecture, history and landscape!

Included

Please note that this tour is bilingual, combining English and Spanish
Tour duration includes round trip travel

Not Included

Round trip Madrid-El Escorial-Valley of the Fallen-Madrid by air-conditioned bus.
Accompanying guide on the Bus.
Entrance and guided tour of the Monastery of El Escorial
Entrance to the Valley of the Fallen and guided tour inside the Basilica.

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