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The Escorial (Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial), the granite palace-monastery built for Philip II in 1563–1584, some 45 km north-west of Madrid; it holds the pantheon of the Spanish kings. ↩
St Lawrence was martyred by being roasted on a gridiron; the Escorial's floor plan, with its grid of courtyards, was traditionally said to echo this shape. ↩
Isabella II (see 2 October 1881), «of Paris» because she had lived there in exile since 1868; she died in Paris in 1904 and was buried in this pantheon. ↩
Mercedes of Orléans (1860–1878), Alfonso XII's first wife; she died at eighteen in June 1878, five months after their wedding. ↩
The Casita del Príncipe (Prince's Little House), a small Neoclassical royal retreat by Juan de Villanueva in the grounds of the Escorial. ↩