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2011-11-20 Travel: Sintra I

Date: 20. Nov. 2011 Country: Portugal Location: Sintra

We spent the day in Sintra and visited the Sintra National Palace, the Pena Park and Pena National Palace and the ruins of the Moorish Castle before returning to Lisbon. Sintra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995

This album contains part 1 of the images taken while walking through the city, in and around the Sintra National Palace and in the Moorish Castle

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Sintra Municipality building

The first interesting building is the municipality building. It looks like a small romantic castle.

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Happy Couple

... our friends posing on the way to the Palacio National

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Palacio National de Sintra IV

The Sintra National Palace was declared National Monument by decree in June 16th, 1910 and is today one of the most visited monuments in Portugal.

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Palacio National de Sintra I

The Sintra National Palace is the best preserved mediaeval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to the late 19th century.

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Palacio National de Sintra III

The famous twin towers are actually kitchen chimneys, each of them 33m high.

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Palacio National de Sintra II

Very likely, the palace was built on the site of the residence of the former Moorish rulers of the region. The main building programs were carried out by King John I, who rebuilt the Palace, and by King Manuel I, wo added the Manuelite wing, giving the Palace its present look.