After visiting Madrid for a couple days, we decided to make a little trip outside the city and go visit El Escorial. El Escorial is a monastery about an hour outside of Madrid, in a small town, at the foot of the mountains. To get there, you must take the train and hike up to the monastery - it's quite a hike, going all uphill for about 15-20 minutes. The monastery is huge! It's a pretty standard monastery for the most part, but has many cool features too - they have a whole section dedicated to how they designed and constructed the place. But the best feature is by far the crypt... from the floor to the ceiling, marble and gold! It is absolutely gorgeous!! Unfortunately, no pictures allowed inside the building.
The Monastery is so big that it takes pretty much the whole day if you want to visit the entire place. They have huge gardens, a school, and a church within the place. It was definitely worth the day trip out of the city! After visiting, we walked around the village - there's not a whole lot to see, but its a very small, quiet, cute village.
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