Sintra, Portugal Travel Blogs

Sintra and Cascais
Nov 6, 2006 (27 photos)

... enjoying their Sunday. Most shops and even a lot of restaurants close on Sunday. It is a real family day still in Portugal. There were peacocks and chickens running loose around the park. We then took a train from Cascais back to Lisbon. It went all ...

Sintra
Jan 12, 2008 (10 photos)

... to the Pena Palace, five minutes further up the mountain. This amazing place, described as the finest example of Romantic architecture in Portugal (and who am I to argue) started life as a monastery but took its current form in the 19th century. It's a lot ...

Northern portugal a spectacular train ride ...
Apr 18, 2001 (1 photos)

... summer residence of the Kings of Portugal and is green, lush and mountaineous. The Pena Palace was the highlight of Portugal for Tonya. The multicoloured towers and domes reminded Paul of Disney World. Inside was a completely wacko collection of rooms, ...

Magica Sintra, Portugal.
May 4, 2006 (19 photos)

... con sus castillos y jardines que son de cuento, y la ciudad misma es un encanto, si alguna vez van a Portugal, no deben dejar de visitar Sintra, a solo una hora de Lisboa en tren. Visitamos el Palacio da Pena, castillo de colores con una vista magnifica y ...

People are strange when you're a stranger
Jun 3, 2007 (17 photos)

... around hilly Sintra.  From the charming main part of town we could see castles perched on the mountain top.  In Portugal, Sintra was always the place for royalty and is now cluttered with many of these fairy-tale like abodes.  We climbed up ...

God Outdoes Himself in Sintra, Portugal
Jan 28, 2008 (26 photos)

... ;     I'm sitting here trying to decide how to even begin to describe the beauty of both Cascais and Sintra, Portugal, and I'm realizing that there might not even be words in the English lexicon that do those two places justice. So just ...

my first fairy tale city
Mar 30, 2007 (10 photos)

... walking until 2 or 3, lunch in a restaurant, then strolling home, to maybe go out again later.  Kind of perfect for me.  So Sintra has a lot of nice walks, since it is in the hills, and a tiny old town to wander in.  Today I walked 19 kms to ...

November 14 Side Trip to Sintra
Nov 14, 2007 (28 photos)

Just outside of Lisbon, about 10 miles away, is a semi-seaside resort called Sintra, built up on a mountain range overlooking the sea.  A UNESCO World Heritage Site now, but in years past Kings resided here during the summer months and those who ...

Once upon a time..
Mar 24, 2009 (3 photos)

... colourful palace materializes in the sky right above your head. Priceless. The castles are built over a small village of Sintra. With its picturesque cobbled streets, cosy restaurants, shops with traditional things, the smell of lemon trees and the ...

Sintra saves the day!
Sep 5, 2009 (7 photos)

... .  Perhaps it's just the jet-lag. Sintra, however... Sintra truly is a great town! Abby and I took a day trip to Sintra on Friday before catching our late night train to Madrid. In 1809 Lord Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, "I ...

Sintra - Daytrip from Lisbon
Apr 24, 2009 (9 photos)

Alright, as promised, here is my update for my daytrip to Sintra. It was absolutely gorgeous!!! Sintra is a small town about a 45 minute train ride outside of Lisbon, lots of GREEN hills and some old hilltop castles (one in ruins from the old Moorish ...

Sintra and Cabo da Roca
Dec 19, 2005 (8 photos)

... on this one. Not much to tell. Spent one night in this lovely little town of Sintra and actually saw quite a bit. Only place we saw outside of Lisbon and is even prettier than Lisbon. Wish we had had more time in Portugal, seems like an amazing place...

A w'kend of Castles, port and disaproving grannies
Jan 19, 2008

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Sintra
Aug 14, 2007

Sintra

Pics from Sintra
Jan 12, 2005 (4 photos)

Here are some pics from Sintra, a town near Lisbon.

Visiting the national palace
Jul 31, 2007 (16 photos)

This afternoon I went on a little half day tour out of Lisbon to Sintra. Here I visited the National Palace.

Favorite Photos from Sintra
Jul 5, 2008 (22 photos)

Some of my faves:

Austerity and Portuguese Clubbing
Jun 26, 2003 (6 photos)

After so much beaching, Miriam and I felt like roughing it up again. But what a deception!!! Sintra, west of Lisboa, was packed with school groups and Japanese tourists, busloads of them. Everything was so expensive; no way of parking the car, no way to ...

Sick of my own company
Jun 8, 2006 (10 photos)

... 3 Aussies, 3 Americans and 2 Taiwanese girls and we all hit it off immediately. Our first stop was Sintra and lovely little town near the coast of Portugal which used to be the summer retreat of the Portuguese king 150 years ago. There area has a ...

The Palace of Sintra
May 21, 2007 (37 photos)

At around 8:30, we all piled onto the bus and drove to the Royal Palace of Sintra. It was the summer resort of the royal family. It is still cold out. We arrived at Sintra early to be the first group in the castle, so we took pictures while we waited. ...

Sintra
Jun 12, 2006 (3 photos)

... 11:30 and walk to the metro where we plan to go to a near by train station to take a 40 minute train to Sintra (a city in Portugal). All goes well and we arrive in Sentra in mid-afternoon. Leaving our bags with the ticket people at the train station we ...

Day Trip to Sintra
Nov 4, 2007 (58 photos)

... I decided to make my way back down which was much easier on me than the descent in the mountains of Nepal. The town of Sintra was bustling when I got down there unlike what it was when I first arrived. I chose to walk around a bit more before ...

Sintra is Fabulous too!
Aug 20, 2009 (9 photos)

... . One room was painted with swans, one with magpies, and one with stags. When I left the palace I decided to walk around Sintra a little bit. There were some narrow, cobble-stoned streets leading up the hill, so I followed some. It was very pretty, with ...

Magical Land of Sintra
Jun 22, 2006

... was around, i could swear he created it for one of his movies. The palace was occupied by royalty until 1910 when Portugal became a republic. It rises up to the peak overlooking the town of Sintra, and is a fairytale land within itself, with towers, ...

A beautiful place, recommended daytrip from Lisbon
Sep 14, 2005 (1 photos)

... looking forward to our slide show when we get home! ha ha ha ha). Next we took a visit to the Palace National De Sintra, which had very old tiles (500 years) on the walls and painted wooden ceilings - apparently the king was caught with a courtier being ...

Arabs Were Here!
Jul 17, 2008

Traveled to the nearby town of Sintra.

Sintra
Nov 14, 2003 (4 photos)

Castles and troll holes.   An epic battle ensued. 

Sintra
Jun 1, 2001 (11 photos)

... Cabo da Roca (western most point of mainland Europe). Driving was interesting....One lane, 2-ways, narrow and curving. Leaving busy Sintra on a quiet Sunday morning was a good idea. We had Monserrate to ourselves that morning. It was lonely with its ...

Sintra
Jun 26, 2008

a castle in the mountains outside lisbon.

Sintra
Nov 8, 2006 (3 photos)

Ya lo hare