More than 1, 000 guests gathered at Philip II's majestic El Escorial monastery for a nuptial mass conducted by Spain's cardinal-primate.

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"I know no one in Buitrago nor in Escorial, " Pablo told him.

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"I heard it from Buitrago to the Escorial, " he said, naming all the stretch of country on the other side of the lines.

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Begun in 1563, the Escorial was the biggest building and artistic project in Europe, and modelled on an imaginary concept of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.

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Philip grew up to have an enormous spread of interests, all of which come together in his main architectural project, the Escorial, home to one of the three exhibitions.

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Spanish police carried out a series of raids on offices, laboratories and flats in Madrid, Zaragoza and El Escorial in May 2006 as part of an investigation known as Operation Puerto.

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It will be shown alongside Titian's two other known versions of John the Baptist, loaned from the Accademia gallery in Venice and the monastery at the former royal palace of El Escorial, near Madrid.

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