Classified as a national monument, the Convento de Santo António belonged to the Franciscan order and was founded in 1598. The monastery originally consisted of a small church and a small number of houses used for retreat purposes. On 17 November 1601, work began on the enlargement and restoration of these buildings. This work carried […]
Dated 1626, the architectural value of this church lies in its extremely interesting stone doorway, carved in the characteristic Manueline style. Photo: rgpsousa.blogspot.com
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Church from the 13th / 14th c. in gothic style. Photo: www.cm-mafra.pt
The fort is situated at the entrance to São João do Estoril, close to the coast road and a thick wood. As it is the oldest of the forts in the area, it has become known as the “Forte Velho”. Photo: www.cascais.pt
This museum is dedicated to works by the German-born painter Klaus Ohnsmann. Even though he is German, a large part of his extensive curriculum was made in Spain. Having won almost a hundred national and internacional prizes, Klaus Ohnsmann shows his realistic works at a space in Sintra, which reflect his 20-year-long career, and are […]
Housed in a 19th-century building, the Sintra Natural History Museum is located in Rua do Paço, in the town’s historic centre. It has a unique collection of thousands of fossils of great cultural and scientific value, put together over 50 years by the collector Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa. Besides its permanent exhibition, […]
The original Romanesque construction, probably dating from the second half of the 12th Century, was substituted in the reign of Dom Dinis (13th century) by a Gothic church, as is confirmed by the stone placque of Margarida Fernandes (1334). It underwent small restorations during the Renaissance and Mannerist periods. It was seriously damaged by the […]
The parish of Santa Maria de Sintra dates back to the time of Portugal’s foundation as a nation, when Dom Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, conquered Sintra from the Moors. At that time, a small chapel was built here, later reconstructed in the 13th century by the prior Martim Dade. The great earthquake […]
Park and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de Sintra. The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by Gerard DeVisme, who rented the farm from the Melo e Castro family in […]
Sintra National Palace The Sintra national palace is unique amongst the royal mediaeval palaces in Portugal and the town’s most distinctive building. Beginning with the nation’s first dynasties, Sintra was one of the preferred places of Portuguese kings and queens, although the palace that we can see nowadays owes its existence to an initiative of […]