El Escorial revamped and reopened

[Tommy Tainant]

Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp

Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’

www.theguardian.com

This sounds like an important development. I think it will be an important stopping off point on any world tour.

 

[DGS49]

"Projects" like this are almost incomprehensible in today's world, and in fact they could never be created in today's world; the cost would literally be prohibitive, even if one could round up enough artists and craftsmen to carry it out.

In a way it's pathetic that Europe's most valuable source of hard currency is selling views of what it accomplished in previous generations to tourists...then bad-mouthing them for being ignorant and vulgar.

As for The Guardian and supporting it, they ARE the corrupt Media that Trump rails about. They constantly publish oblivious and slanted versions of events and situations, pretending that they are providing valuable information, when in fact its main purpose is to propagandize. They have nothing to fear from The Donald. They are not even on his radar screen.

 

[luiza]

This sounds like an important development. I think it will be an important stopping off point on any world tour.

You should find any local cliff edge and use it as your stepping off point .