LISBOA AROUND - CASCAIS - SINTRA

CASCAIS
Just off the coast of Cascais is made mainly high and jagged, broken by stretches of low and lush pine forests that reach to the shore or sandy dunes and moved by that recall African landscapes. This was followed by spectacular landscapes, such as Boca do Inferno, a deep gorge of red rocks on which crashing waves of the Atlantic, and the famous Guincho beach, well known by surfers.

CABO DE ROCHA

Europe ends just beyond the tip of Cabo da Rocha dropping sheer into the ocean for 140 meters.
The whole area is protected in the Natural Park of Sintra and Cascais.

SINTRA
Sintra is pleasant, with cafes, small restaurants, small shops and restored pastel mansions that line the steep streets of the historic center, or surround romantic squares. Sintra is the real city, popular destination even for local tourism, towards the Palace of Vila, the turreted castle of the Moors, the wacky Palacio da Pena.
MORI OF CASTLE
From the eighth century dominates the town from a ridge of the Serra de Sintra, four and a half kilometers from downtown.
It was retaken by the Arabs in 1147, after several failed attempts by King Afonso Henriques, who erected the first Christian chapel dedicated to Sao Pedro de Penaferrim.
Abandoned for centuries, retains the single turreted medieval walls that King Ferdinand II wanted to romantically restored in 1860, including contributing to the park surrounding the castle and the monument giving a new dignity.

PENA PALACE
At 300 meters from the castle, the woods, in the early nineteenth century there were the ruins of a sixteenth century convent.
The environment attracted the attention of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe, husband of Queen Mary II. In full romantic era, the king acquired the area, promoted the restoration of the convent and in 1840 started the construction of what, according to his intentions, should have been the "Ideal Palace", nestled up the newly National Park .
Ferdinand personally oversaw the heavy decoration of the building according to the tastes of the time.
The work was discontinued at the death of Queen Mary in 1853 and were resumed only when the king convoluted second marriage in 1869 and the end result that we see today, was an imposing building that has a mix of styles and effects Disney not a little kitsch.
Her successor, King Charles I with his wife Queen Amelia spent long periods here, especially in the two years preceding the fall of the monarchy and the departure for exile in 1910.
Since 1912 the palace and museum offers visitors the royal apartments rather surprising for the size of small rooms with low ceilings and the simplicity of the furnishings, including chinoiserie Jugenstil and ornaments.
The palace, surrounded by a large private park, sits atop a steep hill. An internal bus helps to overcome the 300-meter
steep slope between the entrance of the park (where the ticket) and the palace, not to start the visit with the breath.

OBIDIOS
Citadel was founded by the Celts in 308 BC, the Romans Obidos was the Visigoths and Arabs, before being conquered by King Afonso The intact walls of the fourteenth century that protects the delightful village of whitewashed houses and flower gardens. The main road from Port Vila to superb rooms, decorated with fifteenth-century royal residence doors and windows Manueline today that after careful restoration, it houses a hotel, the Pousada do Castelo, Portugal among the most exclusive. In 1309 Queen Isabel moved here, where he founded the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit, dedicated to helping the lepers and where he built the chapel of St. Vicente, later became the Church of SaoJoao Baptista, to which was added in the sixteenth century portal we see today. Even the Queen Leonor, wife of King Joao II came to reside here in 1491 after the death of his son Afonso, founded the Brotherhood of Mercy. She was responsible for the construction of the Church of Mercy in 1498, decorated with eighteenth-century majolica. It's nice to go round the city walls in its upper part admire in its complete entirety from the country.

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