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This large complex of Renaissance buildings consists of a monastery, a Royal palace with an impressive basilica in its center, and a royal underground burial pantheon of the kings of Spain. Also, part of the complex, an impressive 16th \u2013 18th century royal library with more than 40,000 volumes, architectural museum, large collection of religious relics, and spectacular palace gardens. The Royal Basilica with its large dome and impressive naves is magnificently decorated, with frescoes, beautiful bronze sculptures, and great paintings by the like of Velazquez, Titian, Luca Giordano, Tibaldi, Zuccari, and others. Next to the basilica, a courtyard surrounded by galleries decorated with various impressive frescoes, and the House of the King with the impressive Hall of Battles and the Royal Apartments of Philip II. 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