It has 9 towers, 9 organs, 16 patios, 73 statues, 86 sets of stairs, 88 fountains, 1200 widows, and more than 1600 paintings.  Designed to support the Counter-Reformation, its church fa?de is of a simplified Roman Mannerist style with an Ionic temple
It has 9 towers, 9 organs, 16 patios, 73 statues, 86 sets of stairs, 88 fountains, 1200 widows, and more than 1600 paintings.  Designed to support the Counter-Reformation, its church fa?de is of a simplified Roman Mannerist style with an Ionic temple on a Doric lower story.  Dedicated to St. Lawrence, on whose feast day the King defeated the French at St. Quentin, it was begun by Juan Bautista de Toledo and finished by Juan de Herrera to honor Philip II.  FTP name this monastery, church, and museum located about thirty miles northwest of Madrid.
It has 9 towers, 9 organs, 16 patios, 73 statues, 86 sets of stairs, 88 fountains, 1200 widows, and more than 1600 paintings.  
El Escorial