Lisbon: Pena Palace, Moorish Castle, Qta. Regaleira & Sintra

Centro Historico de Sintra

Discover the historic city of Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on a day trip from Lisbon. .Sintra is a town that is around 35 km from Lisbon. It is a magical place with castles and palaces and a stunning historic town center. It has crazy views and also special beaches. UNESCO declared the cultural landscape of Sintra a World Heritage Site in 1995.

Quinta da Regaleira

Quinta da Regaleira is a place to feel. It is not enough to tell you about its history, its landscape and its mysteries. It is necessary to get to know it, to contemplate the scenography of the gardens and buildings, to admire the Palace, a true philosopher's mansion inspired by alchemy, to walk through the exotic park and to feel its spirituality.The Regaleira Palace is the main building and the most common name of Quinta da Regaleira. It is also known as the Monteiro dos Milhões Palace, a name associated with the nickname of its former owner, António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro.

A privileged vantage point looking out over the Atlantic coastline, the floodplain and the Sintra Hills, the millennium-old Moorish Castle, founded under Islamic rule, occupied a then strategic position for defending both the surrounding territory and the maritime access routes to the city of Lisbon. The artefacts found on this site identify how, in between the walls and their adjoining areas, there lived a population in an area now named the Islamic Quarter