Casita del Príncipe

Today: Casita de Abajo, El Escorial

Place: San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Kind: Palace
Built: 1771 to 1775
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

A Neoclassical pleasure lodge built between 1771 and 1775 to Juan de Villanueva's design for Prince Carlos, the future Carlos IV, and enlarged between 1781 and 1784. Much of its original fittings were lost in the Napoleonic invasion. Patrimonio Nacional runs it, and it holds a valuable collection of paintings.

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