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Pantheon of the Kings

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

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Pantheon of the Kings

Monument · San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

Pantheon of the Kings

Circular crypt beneath the high altar built between 1617 and 1654 to a design by Juan Bautista Crescenzi and executed by Juan Gómez de Mora; it combines black marble, reddish jasper and gilt bronzes around twenty-six sarcophagi.

Photo: Bocachete (Public domain)

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