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El Escorial is a dramatic monastery, mausoleum, and palace built by Felipe II, and one of the most-visited places in Spain; and nearby is El Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen), Franco’s memorial to his reign and soldiers killed in the Civil War of 1936–1939.
A port for Granada in Moorish times, Almuñécar continued to enjoy a certain prestige after the Reconquest when Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial, Philip II’s grand monastery cum palace near Madrid, was commissioned to design the parish church.
Felipe II’s greatest lasting legacy is El Escorial, a grandiose palace and monastery in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, northwest of Madrid.