The day I arrived, the Portuguese national parks service announced that all but one of Sintra’s palaces would be closed due ...

Pena Palace stands as Sintra's crowning jewel. Sitting high above the town on a hill, this vibrant castle is a whimsical ...

For the last several months, my social media feed has been buzzing with amazing, colourful pictures of Sintra, with many ...

Therefore today "the parks and monuments located in this area will remain closed, namely the park and Pena National Palace, ...

Sintra's most famous hotel ... to the photogenic and colorful 19th-century Pena Palace, on a nearby hillside. Once the home of the Dutch consul in Portugal, it later was the residence of the ...

Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. Walking down steep, twisting lanes into the centre of town, I passed the (closed) road up to the banana-coloured Pena Palace and peeped over the gate into the ...