Description Sintra

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Sintra is a Portuguese village in the district and metropolitan area of ??Lisbon, integrating its northern part.

The village of Sintra is notable for the presence of its romantic architecture, resulting in its classification as a Cultural Landscape of Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has refused to be elevated to the category of city, despite being the seat of the second most populous municipality in Portugal.

Sintra is a tourist town at the foot of the Sintra mountains, in Portugal, close to the capital, Lisbon. For a long time a royal sanctuary, its wooded land is studded with farms and palaces in pastel colors. The National Palace of Sintra, of Moorish and Manueline style, is distinguished by the two stunning identical chimneys and the elaborate tiles. The 19th-century Pena National Palace, on top of the hill, is known for its extravagant design and stunning views.

Sintra is one of those earthly paradises where the divine hand took pains, sculpting Nature in a sublime way, as if wanting to surprise us, surrendered to the beauty of the Work.

Sintra is a place to feel. It is not enough to talk about it, tell its history or describe its landscape. It is a place with spirit, a place that speaks to us from the inside. From the Palaces to the fields, from the Colares wine to the beaches, in Sintra there are stories, the urban and the rural, the present and the past are mixed in a unique territory.

The mystery surrounding its Serra, or Monte da Lua; the chromatic density of the landscape that surprises us, as if it were a large collective canvas; the inspiring and dreamy sea; their legends and ancestral traditions; its peculiar people, whose hospitality and friendliness is recognized; in short, all this and much more where words cannot reach, makes Sintra the Glorious Eden that Byron was so good at singing.