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Saint Laurence of the cinder bank
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Saint Laurence of cinder bank is a city of Madrid with an important historical patrimony. Between your main monuments  find: Monastery of the declared cinder bank as "monument of world interest" by the UNESCO in 1984 or the valley of the interest dues.The real site of saint Laurence of the cinder bank is a great complex ( palace, monastery, museum and library ) that is found in saint Laurence of the cinder bank, municipality positioned to 45 km to the northwest of Madrid, in the community of Madrid (Spain).Saint Laurence of the EscorialEl names of the the cinder bank is due to a few ancient whses of reasonable scum of an ironworks of the area from where took your |topónimo| the located village in the proximities of the locus in quo  built this monastery-palace and that at present it is the municipality of the cinder bank, ( 12.669 inhabiting in 2003 ), different of those of saint Laurence of the cinder bank, ( 14.358 inhabiting in 2003 ), sprung up afterwards near the monument.Positioned near the dull mountain in the saw of Guadarrama, this monumental complex was sent build for the Felipe II king to commemorate the victory of saint quintin on 10th August 1557 on the forces of Enrique II, king of France and to serv as place of burial of the remainder of your parents, the Carlos I and Isabela swordfish of Portugal, as well as the relations and those of your succeeding.Autor The picture was taken by Håkan Svensson (Xauxa ) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_El_Escorial

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