The Golden One - July 19, 2024


The Great Renaissance Palace of El Escorial – And Salutations From Mount Peñalara

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Marcus Follin
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Reconquista Charles V, Holy Roman Demigod Mentality Mount Penalara Titlear Duke Charles V Segovia Alonso
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In this fine episode, we take a look at the most magnificent Renaissance palace in the world, El Escorial, and we also check in from a little mountaineering expedition in Sweden. I have been training for some time now to summit Mount Kebnikayse in Sweden, and I have finally got the time to do it, so why not take advantage of it?

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00:00:00.040 Greetings my esteemed audience. We are yet again checking in from good old Spain. In this fine
00:00:06.140 video we will have a look at literally the greatest renaissance palace in the world and
00:00:11.240 we'll also check in from a little mountaineering expedition. But first we have a message from the
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00:01:12.980 those who read my book reviews will know that I have for some time now had an urge to summit
00:01:20.120 Mount Kebnikayse in good old Sweden. Now I have still to do that. I must mount an expedition
00:01:26.540 whenever I get the time to do so. I did something similar though. I had the opportunity to summit
00:01:32.440 Mount Penalara here in good old Spain. Shout out to Alonso for the valiant company. So Mount
00:01:39.800 Penalara is actually higher than Mount Kebnikayse but since we start from a higher position already
00:01:45.620 it's not quite as big of an expedition. But still it was a really nice day. A good training session
00:01:52.580 took five hours. The ascent that part of the loop was a bit more arduous than the descent. And of
00:02:00.240 course as you might see on the video footage absolutely stunning views and we actually saw
00:02:05.820 San Ildefonso. We will return to this sacred place in a separate video but yeah I was quite excited to
00:02:11.320 see that from the peaks. So good times good stuff. I can definitely recommend that you get out in
00:02:17.000 nature on these expeditions to absorb as much divine energy as possible. Now I encourage you to admire
00:02:25.000 the majestic nature as well as my physique and and after that we will have a look at El Escorial.
00:02:41.320 We'll see you later.
00:02:46.000 We'll be right back.
00:03:16.000 Now, as you might have suspected, this last footage is actually from the Atlantic.
00:03:30.640 It's just so epic and nice that I had to use it again, and I will probably use it more
00:03:36.440 times as well.
00:03:37.400 So, anyway, on to the great Renaissance Palace of El Escorial.
00:03:43.560 Now, this majestic palace was built between 1563 and 1584 by order of King Philip II, and
00:03:53.800 that is the son of Charles V, an absolute one of the most powerful men of all time.
00:03:59.840 We'll get back to him in just a bit, but first I will explain what I found so fascinating
00:04:05.140 with this great place.
00:04:07.400 So, you have this, it's a whole complex, it's a massive building where you have different
00:04:13.600 places inside of the buildings.
00:04:15.460 You have the library, which we spent most of our time in here, my beloved wife and I.
00:04:21.540 It was just so aesthetic, so epic, so many details to look at.
00:04:25.600 So, I tried to do justice by filming most of it then, so the library here you see before
00:04:31.720 you.
00:04:32.440 So, the interesting part here is that you have in El Escorial, in this massive building,
00:04:37.740 you also have a great basilica.
00:04:40.360 And, of course, it's a church, so you have plenty of Christian iconography, or rather European
00:04:45.540 Christian.
00:04:46.040 And when I say European Christian, I mean that you have these classical beautiful angels,
00:04:51.200 so not these biblically accurate angels, you might have heard.
00:04:55.760 It's a bit of a meme to say biblically accurate, but, yeah, anyway, you have a beautiful angel
00:05:00.780 is a European angel, heavily inspired by paganism, of course.
00:05:04.260 So, you have Christian elements in the palace, and then you have the library, and here you can
00:05:10.640 see you have, on the artwork, on the walls, you have Apollo, for example, you have Hercules,
00:05:16.040 you have Pan, you have many different pagan elements, and then, of course, they celebrate
00:05:20.960 various sciences, and the sciences are depicted as pagan goddesses, so you can see Philosophia,
00:05:28.100 for example.
00:05:29.120 So, interesting stuff, for sure.
00:05:31.400 So, the Renaissance can be seen as a revival of paganism, and, of course, a time of scientific
00:05:39.260 exploration, a time of art, a time of aesthetics, also a time of chaos.
00:05:45.400 But, during chaotic times, you can have these great artistic expressions, some thinking about
00:05:51.160 Italy, in particular, we'll return to this topic later on, but that's what I have to say
00:05:56.000 about the Renaissance now, while we're admiring this great artwork.
00:06:00.600 alimentos, like,
00:06:09.300 say it in the distance, to the Renaissance.
00:06:10.600 We are in there at a close moment.
00:06:12.740 Amen.
00:06:15.980 Earlier at Princeton, I
00:06:16.380 was given a trip to dagen
00:06:19.940 and then he
00:06:25.600 was given to that
00:06:29.600 Now, I suppose many of you know that I'm an enjoyer of calligraphy, so I took the time
00:06:53.220 to admire this fine book right here.
00:06:55.320 And as a gentle book publisher as well, I got inspired greatly by the absolute beauty
00:07:02.100 of this tome of knowledge.
00:07:04.260 Now let us return to the aforementioned Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
00:07:10.700 Allow me to read his many illustrious titles for you so you can admire his splendor.
00:07:16.760 Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, King of Spain, Lord of the Netherlands, Titlear
00:07:23.400 Duke of Burgundy, head of the Great House of the Habsburgs.
00:07:28.280 During his reign, he spent a lot of time fighting the rising threat to the east.
00:07:32.840 By this time, of course, quite a powerful entity.
00:07:35.400 I am talking about the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent was his contemporary.
00:07:41.680 So in the Hall of Battles in El Scorial, you can see some depictions of wars fought against
00:07:47.400 Moors, as well as against the French.
00:07:50.620 So the French and both the Holy Roman Empire and Spain always been rivals, which is natural 1.00
00:07:57.960 if you look at the geography.
00:08:00.200 Now the Reconquista, it wasn't the end of battles between Europe and the Global South,
00:08:06.140 North Africa, the Barbary Coast, the Ottomans.
00:08:09.000 This continued in the early modern period as well.
00:08:11.840 So even after, as I mentioned in the latest video and in the latest podcast, Spain managed
00:08:17.240 to complete the Reconquista, completed the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.
00:08:24.220 The battles continued because you had the Barbary Coast and they commenced slave raids on European 0.99
00:08:30.440 coasts well into the 1800s until the French conquered a lot of territory there.
00:08:37.860 And also for my American friends and my Swedish friends, I'm happy to report that there was
00:08:43.340 a joint military expedition.
00:08:45.400 So the US and Sweden fought against the Barbary Corsairs and this is known as the First Barbary
00:08:51.380 War from 1801 to 1805.
00:08:55.600 Shout out and much love to my brothers in good old America.
00:08:59.860 And of course, shout out to the French and the Spanish and the Portuguese as well who
00:09:03.480 fought against the menace of these pirates and we finally put an end to it.
00:09:08.960 Good stuff.
00:09:09.960 Good times.
00:09:10.960 Now on a similar note, I just have to say it as well.
00:09:13.280 Big shout out to the other European nations who fought against the Ottomans on the other
00:09:17.760 side of the Mediterranean.
00:09:19.340 Big topic.
00:09:20.340 We will definitely return to it in coming videos and podcast episodes.
00:09:25.220 That all being said, I can definitely recommend that you visit El Escorial if you are in Spain.
00:09:32.340 Now we are checking in briefly from Madrid and then you might ask me, compassionate one,
00:09:38.260 should I visit Madrid?
00:09:39.660 I would say that it should not be a priority.
00:09:41.840 You have certain nice things in Madrid.
00:09:43.960 You have the royal palace and you have some nice museums as well and you see this nice
00:09:49.220 fountain and some statues of Visigothic kings as well.
00:09:53.260 But otherwise Madrid is not something I would give priority.
00:09:56.800 The other smaller places outside of Madrid, they are more worth, I'd say, in my humble opinion
00:10:03.260 at least.
00:10:04.260 So you have here again El Escorial, you have Segovia, you have Toledo, San Ildefonso.
00:10:10.360 All of these places, a lot more beauty and a lot more culture.
00:10:13.900 And Madrid, it's like most European capitals, I would say it's not a particularly pleasant
00:10:20.320 place to be.
00:10:21.320 Now, if you do have the time, I would recommend a visit to the royal palace, but maybe a day
00:10:27.120 or two, that could be enough for a visit to Madrid if you are tight on time.
00:10:32.200 So thank you for watching, thank you for your support.
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