Casita del Infante

Today: Casita de Arriba, San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Place: San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Kind: Palace
Built: 1771 to 1773
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A Neoclassical pleasure lodge Juan de Villanueva designed for Infante Gabriel, son of Carlos III, built between 1771 and 1773 on a rise south of the monastery. Its original decoration was lost, and what is seen today is from the reigns of Carlos IV and Fernando VII. Juan Carlos I lived there before his marriage; Patrimonio Nacional runs it.

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