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For a half millennium or more, Madrid idled as a provincial backwater, rarely noticed on the arid central plains of Castile, until Felipe II plucked it from his royal cap in 1561 and proclaimed it the capital of Spain.
The subsequent war over Spanish succession resulted in the enthronement of the Bourbon candidate, Felipe V. When Madrid’s alcázar burned down in 1734, with the loss of many art treasures, Felipe seized the opportunity to build a new, incredibly lavish royal palace.
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.
Charismatic Felipe González, a Socialist, was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1986.
The grassy area, cut by one gravel path, leads to the end of the promontory — and the mighty Fuerte San Felipe del Morro, usually simply referred to as “El Morro” (meaning “the headland”).