Art and Architecture (SP3055)

This is the front façade of the El Escorial, criticised in its time for facing the sierra and hence losing daytime sunlight. But keep in mind that the orientation of the palace was in accordance with the sky on the día de San Lorenzo.

A seventeenth-century engaving of the Monasterio del Escorial gives an idea of the vastness of the structure and the long axis from the entrance to the Basilica