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Quinta da Beloura
The Farm offers a quiet environment, while private and exclusive, with special emphasis on safety. In addition to providing various leisure activities such as golf, tennis, horseback riding, gym and spa, there are nice restaurants and shopping areas. |
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Cabo da Roca
It is located in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park and its coordinates (38°47′N, 9°30′W) are inscribed on a stone plaque on the monument at the site. The cliff rises out of the Atlantic Ocean to approximately 140 metres above sea level, and the lighthouse along with a tourist shop also sit on top of the cliff. |
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Lagoa Azul
The Lagoa Azul, in the Serra de Sintra, is the perfect meeting place between man and nature. This is the ideal place for family good times in the past, but is often the starting point for mountain biking Practitioner. |
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Convento dos Capuchos
Capuchos Convent, also known as Santa Cruz or the Cork Convent, is situated in the forest, in Sintra’s Mountain Range, 9 km from the city centre.
The Convent, built in 1560 by Dom Álvaro de Castro in Mannerist style, is all covered with cork in order to prevent humidity infiltrations in the wall. In fact, everything in this convent reveal the advanced knowledge of the Franciscan Friars for their time. |
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Castelo dos Mouros
The Castelo dos Mouros (Moorish Castle) is located in the astonishing Sintra, on a high hill overlooking the village, also being one of its most important tourist attractions. It is part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. |
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Palácio de Monserrate
The Monserrate Palace is one of the best illustrations of the Romantic architecture in Sintra. The original building was built in the 18th century in imitation of a medieval castle. |
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Colares
Colares is also a demarcated wine-growing region, producing the very popular and increasingly rare Colares wine, which can be tasted at the Adega Regional, in a very beautiful building in the town centre. The houses and imposing farms all around Colares affirm this wonderful relation with Wine and its production. |
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Cruz Alta da Serra de Sintra
The Cruz Alta (“high cross”) Viewpoint is the highest point of the luxuriant Sintra Mountain range, at about 529 meters high, situated in the heart of the amazing Pena Park, at about 4km distance from the Sintra’s Historical Centre, classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. |
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Palácio da Pena
National Pena Palace, dating from 1839, is situated about 4,5km from Sintra’s historical centre, on at the top of the Monte da Pena, and is considered to be the most complete and beautiful monument of the Portuguese 19th century Romantic revival architecture. |
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Palácio da Quinta da Regaleira
The Regaleira Palace and Estate, also known as also known as the "Palace of Monteiro the Millionaire”, was built in the beginning of the 20th century, born from the imagination of its millionaire owner António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro and the Italian architect Luigi Manini. |
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Saint Pedro of Sintra
São Pedro is nowadays famous for its commerce, mainly of antiques, and by the proximity with the historical centre of Sintra, classified as World’s Cultural Heritage y UNESCO. |
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Seteais Palace
With a Neoclassical architecture, the Palace is included in the assembly of palaces reformed by the Bourgeoisie. The interiors are profusely decorated with trompe d’oeil techniques, and magnificent furniture. The Sintra’s magical mist assures that Seteais is a special place, filled with legends and tales. |
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Liberty Park
With an impressive entry, reportedly romantic, the Park has a huge variety of plants, flowers and trees, and many mysterious places of outstanding natural beauty, inviting the visitor to leisurely walks. |
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Serra de Sintra
Sintra’s mountain is by many considered to be a mystical and magical place, with a luxuriant vegetation, on the surroundings of the big Lisboa region, right in the heart of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.
The unique beauty of its cultural landscape is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. |
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Natural Park Sintra-Cascais
The Natural Park of Sintra-Cascais presents an amazing diversity of environments and landscapes, including dunes, forests, ponds, a beautiful coastline with sculpted rocky cliffs that put together astonishing beaches, the imposing westernmost point of the European continent Cabo da Roca, and, in the centre, the magnificent Sintra’s Mountain Range and all the area classified by the UNESCO as World’s Heritage. |
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Ocean Swimming Pool of Praia das Maçãs
The main swimming pool – or big pool – is an Olympic swimming pool (50X25 metres) and there is also a diving area (marked out).
It has a volume of 2,200 cubic metres. |