With a tourist trip to Madrid, one of the most recommended excursions is visit the Monastery of El Escorial.
Surely you know that it is an impressive monument that is located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, In the Sierra de Madrid, 53 kilometers northwest of the capital.
Now, if you don't have a car and want make the visit on your own you will have to use the options public transport available, train or bus.
All the information in detail
How to go to El Escorial by train from Madrid
In the case of Trains, In the Chamartin Station you have to take the Commuter line C3A, with a frequency of every hour, and in which it will take you about 50 minutes to reach El Escorial.
If you board the train at Atocha station It takes one hour and five minutes.
El train ticket price from Madrid to El Escorial It is 4,05 euros in each direction (Zone 6).
The train leaves you at the station in the town of El Escorial, so for get to the monastery You will have to walk about 15 minutes or take the urban bus that connects said town with San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
How to go to El Escorial by bus from Madrid
If you prefer go by bus to El Escorial, you will have a greater frequency of service.
To do this you must take the company buses Herranz Coaches, which depart towards El Escorial from the Moncloa interchange, in which it is located at the station Moncloa Metro.
You have two bus lines that take you to El Escorial, where you can visit the monastery.
On the one hand, the 661, which in Las Rozas takes the El Escorial highway and passes through Galapagar; and for its part the 664 runs through the La Coruña highway, passing through Villalba and Guadarrama.
Both lines take about 55 minutes to reach the San Lorenzo de El Escorial Bus Station, located in the urban center, very close to the monastery.
But in this regard, the most advisable thing would be to take line 661, which has a greater frequency of between 15 and 20 minutes.
El bus ticket price from Madrid to El Escorial It is 4,20 euros in each direction (zone A-C1).
Tour to El Escorial and Valley of the Fallen from Madrid
Now, if you want to not worry about public transport, instead of going on your own you have the option of signing up for a tour to visit the monastery of El Escorial in a group organized by agency.
Here you have all the information and how to hire the Tour to El Escorial 5 hours long, or the most complete option of the Tour to Segovia, El Escorial and the Valley of the Fallen, 11 hours long
These excursions to the monastery are completed with the visit to the Valley of the Fallen.
These Spanish tour to El Escorial They leave Madrid (St. Street Nicholas 15, next to the Opera) at 8,45:XNUMX a.m., on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, lasting five hours.
At the beginning you will visit the monastery, and then you will approach the aforementioned Valley of the Fallen to finally be back in Madrid around 14 p.m.
Trains and buses from Madrid to El Escorial: schedules
Here you have more information about the public transport between Madrid and El Escorial., specifically, the commuter line to go to Escorial and bus 661 and bus 664 schedules.
- Map of Cercanías lines in the Community of Madrid
- Consultation of commuter train schedules in Madrid
- Bus 661 schedules from Moncloa in Madrid to San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- Bus 664 schedules from Moncloa in Madrid to San Lorenzo de El Escorial
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I can't find the website to buy the train from Madrid to Escorial, although the schedules are listed, it is not available for purchase.
The same thing happens to me when I want to buy a bus ticket.
could you help me
C3a is to El Escorial, not C8a
José, thank you for reporting the error, now corrected 🙂
Bath, not balo
I'm going by train to El Escorial and I wanted to know if the trains carry bullets since I'm going with children.
Very good data!
Hey, to go from Madrid I go to the Moncloa interchange, I buy a round trip ticket (because I go early and return in the afternoon)
Does the bus leave me near the Monastery? Which is the station?
I can do that?
Thank you
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There should be round-trip tickets to San Lorenzo.
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