Last week, the class and our professor went on a trip North of Spain. We went to Madrid,
Escorial, Segovia, Bilbao, and San Sebastian. My favorite trip of the entire trip had to be our day trip to
Escorial,
even though it did rain the entire time. While we were there, we visited El
Croquis and El Real
Monasterio de San Lorenzo. My favorite part was the monastery. The monastery was a palace and we all took the tour. It was absolutely amazing. It was so big that we spent hours touring through the palace and still missed some parts. I have never been in a place like that before and to think that people actually lived there is unbelievable. I have never heard of anybody getting lost in their house, but if i lived there, it would definitely be the case. It was very interesting. The first part of the tour, we were taken to the ground floor where we were able to see all the floor
plans, section cuts, facades, and sketches of the palace. It was really interesting to see the process of the designing and building of something so big. Not only was the entire tour amazing, but as we were trying to find the way to the basilica, we found out why it was closed for the day. Somebody was actually getting married in the monastery. We actually ran right into the wedding and we were able to see the
bride get escorted in. We got tons of picture and, surprisingly, the bride turned to us and smiled for the majority of them. If you look really hard at the one picture of the basilica, you can see the bridal party in the lower left hand corner. It was a great way to finish off our tour of the palace.
Last week, the class and our professor went on a trip North of Spain. We went to Madrid, Escorial, Segovia, Bilbao, and San Sebastian. My favorite trip of the entire trip had to be our day trip to Escorial, even though it did rain the entire time. While we were there, we visited El Croquis and El Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo. My favorite part was the monastery. The monastery was a palace and we all took the tour. It was absolutely amazing. It was so big that we spent hours touring through the palace and still missed some parts. I have never been in a place like that before and to think that people actually lived there is unbelievable. I have never heard of anybody getting lost in their house, but if i lived there, it would definitely be the case. It was very interesting. The first part of the tour, we were taken to the ground floor where we were able to see all the floor 
plans, section cuts, facades, and sketches of the palace. It was really interesting to see the process of the designing and building of something so big. Not only was the entire tour amazing, but as we were trying to find the way to the basilica, we found out why it was closed for the day. Somebody was actually getting married in the monastery. We actually ran right into the wedding and we were able to see the bride get escorted in. We got tons of picture and, surprisingly, the bride turned to us and smiled for the majority of them. If you look really hard at the one picture of the basilica, you can see the bridal party in the lower left hand corner. It was a great way to finish off our tour of the palace. 
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