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He died here in 1936: Melancholy gardens of dark laurel and cypresses lead up to a hilltop mausoleum of the writer’s sarcophagus flanked by those of his disciples.
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.
Also located on the south side of Tiananmen Square is the Mao Zedong Mausoleum (Mao Zhuxi Jinian Bei), opened in 1977, a year after the Chairman’s death.
On the west bank of the river — set in a desert landscape — is the seventh-century Coptic monastery of St. Simeon now sadly in ruins, and the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan (1877–1957), spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.
Via di Ripetta `Embankment Street' skirts the Tiber River as it passes the Ara Pacis and the Mausoleum of Augustus.