El Escorial - Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial Panteón de los Reyes

Immediately underneath the church is the Panteón de los Reyes, the burial vault of the Spanish kings. A domed octagonal structure originally designed by Herrera was enlarged by Juan Gómez de Mora and completed in 1654. The black marble and gilded bronze decoration, by Giovanni Baptista Crescenti, reflects the Baroque taste of the period. On the left-hand side are identical granite sarcophagi containing the remains of almost all the Spanish kings from Charles V onwards, together with Isabella II; on the right are the queen mothers and Isabella II's husband Francisco de Asís.