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I went to Toledo and Escorial, two cities not far from Madrid. There are these amazing structures that were built centuries ago. Imagine the wealth the dead kings must have had! It was built in the 1500s.

There were a lot of ghosts! In El Monasterio del Escorial there are rooms full of coffins. El Monasterio del Escorial is a huge palace-like structure where Felipe II spent his winters. Complete with galleries, offices, bedrooms, salons, and a Basílica. It was creepy because the people were still rotting away inside a castle (you can smell the funk of 4000 years-seriously). The royal family was incestuous and pretty wicked. They were pretty strange people. (Obviously, they are all together inside their winter home and it has been centuries since they died.)

I wish I could show the coffins but they prohibit photos inside and a security guard was already pissed at me for crawling into a fireplace.



part of the monasterio




Me in Escorial


Toledo was cool, but it rained all day. Here are some photos....

City walls


A really old mosque that was converted into a church.


View of Toledo


This church took 200 years to build


Inside of the church

There was this weird hypnotic video about the priest who decided this church needed to be built...