Brewer's: Escurial

The palace of the Spanish sovereigns, about fifteen miles north-west of Madrid. It is one of the most superb structures in Europe, but is built among rocks, as the name signifies.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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