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Sintra
Sintra is a town belonging to the region of Lisbon that you must not lose occasion to visit. A place of daydream, inspiration poets' and catalogued by the UNESCO Patrimony of the Humanity in 1995.
Sintra is, undoubtedly, a point of inexhaustible tourist attraction. Nature and artistic patrimony coexist in perfect harmony. It is an exuberant city in every respect and the best example of perfect merger between a rich nature and the stateliness of its monuments. This perfect combination gives to the city of Sintra a romantic air that it has fascinated for centuries to writers and poets. This way, geniuses as Lord Byron the denomainaron “the garden of the earthly paradise”.
The Sintra delight has no end, we might divide from the historical center of the town where we find the National Palace, one of many magnificent monumental buildings that we can visit in Sintra, considered national monument in 1910 and whose conical chimneys are typical and a point of reference to the traveler. This palace offers interesting samples of Gothic style and later, of style manuelino.
Continuing the route, we find jewels as Tholos do Monge, which transports us to the neolithic one, can enjoy the conference that offer the walls of the Castelo two Mouros, erected in a rocky massif in the Sintra saw, allow to astonish for the exoticism of the Palace of Monserrate, one of the best examples of Portuguese Romanesque art, or to enjoy the calmness of the Convent of the Capuchins.
Undoubtedly, another Sintra attraction is the Palace of Sorrow, errand to construct for the Portuguese royal family in the S. XIX. and a clear example of the Romanesque one of the S. XIX in Portugal. This Palace was ordered to construct on the ruins of an ancient monastery of the order of the friars Jerónimos that was devastated by the earthquake of 1755. It served during the S. XIX as summer residence of the Portuguese monarchy. Both its enclave placed in half of rocky formations, and its miscellany of styles neogothic, neo-Renaissance, neo-manuelino and neo-Arab, do of this Palace an attractive tourist reference point.
But in Sintra not only the monuments represent a motive for visiting the town. Its natural environment, the saw that makes a detour to the town and into which its monuments integrate are a claim more than sufciente to escape up to this magic destination. Those lovers of the nature will be able to enjoy this one in its maximum splendor in the Sintra-Cascais nature reserve.
