Sintra: Pena Palace & Moorish Castle
🚶10 mapped stops
A Romanticist fever dream in misty forests — psychedelic palaces on mountaintop ruins.
Paradas Neste Passeio (10)
- 1 Sintra train station Arriving from Lisbon — the mist-shrouded Serra de Sintra rises ahead
- 2 Sintra National Palace Twin conical chimneys — medieval royal palace with Mudejar tiles
- 3 Volta do Duche garden Romantic garden path climbing through fern-covered ravines
- 4 Castelo dos Mouros entrance Moorish castle ruins — 8th-century walls snaking along the mountain ridge
- 5 Moorish Castle ramparts Walking the battlements — views to the Atlantic coast and Pena Palace above
- 6 Pena Palace approach Through the forest park — giant sequoias and tree ferns from five continents
- 7 Pena Palace Psychedelic 19th-century palace — red, yellow, and blue towers erupting from the trees
- 8 Pena Palace terraces Views from the highest point — Lisbon, the Tagus estuary, and on clear days, the Atlantic
- 9 Chalet da Condessa d'Edla Alpine chalet built for King Ferdinand's second wife — intimate gardens in the forest
- 10 Quinta da Regaleira Gothic-Renaissance mansion with the Initiation Well — spiral staircase into the earth
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