San Lorenzo de El Escorial (esp)

San Lorenzo de El Escorial

San Lorenzo de El Escorial ranks 6,244th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Serres, DeKalb, Illinois, and Kozani. Memorable people born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial include Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Munir El Haddadi, and Carlos Verona. Memorable people who died in San Lorenzo de El Escorial include Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, Francisco Rizi, and Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal. San Lorenzo de El Escorial has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many companions, and painters. San Lorenzo de El Escorial is located in Spain.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, also known as El Escorial de Arriba, is a town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, located to the northwest of the region in the southeastern side of the Sierra de Guadarrama, at the foot of Mount Abantos and Las Machotas, 47 kilometres (29 mi) from Madrid. It is head of the eponymous judicial party. The settlement is popularly called El Escorial de Arriba, to differentiate it from the neighbouring village of El Escorial, also known as El Escorial de Abajo. Read more on Wikipedia