Trip: El Escorial 
    Date(s): September 14th 2025
    Time: Departing the steps of Padre Rubio Hall at 8:30am and returning to campus at 6pm.

This monumental UNESCO World Heritage site was built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of the martyrdom of St. Lawrence. A great symbol of the Counter Reformation, the Escorial Monastery stands in an exceptionally beautiful site in Castile. Its austere architecture, a break with previous styles, had a considerable influence on Spanish architecture for more than half a century. It was the retreat of a mystic king and became, in the last years of Philip II's reign, the center of the global superpower of the time.