Private Tour of Sintra and Cascais

Private Tour of Sintra and Cascais

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Stop At: Park and National Palace of Pena, Estrada da Pena, 2710-609 Sintra, Portugal

The Park and the Pena Palace, implanted in the Sintra mountain range and fruit of the creative genius of D. Fernando II, are the maximum exponent of Romanticism of the 19th century in Portugal, with architectural references of Manueline and Moorish influence.

The Palace was built to be observed from any point of the Park, forest and lush gardens with more than five hundred tree species from the four corners of the world.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Palacio Nacional de Sintra, Largo Rainha Dona Amelia, Sintra 2710-616 Portugal

The National Palace of Sintra, located in the historic center of the village of Sintra, is a unique and unavoidable monument for its historical, architectural and artistic value.

Of all the Palaces that the Portuguese monarchs had erected throughout the Middle Ages, only Sintra has remained practically intact until today, maintaining the essence of its configuration and silhouette since the mid-16th century. The main campaigns of works after the Christian Reconquest (12th century) were promoted by the king D. Dinis, D. João I and D. Manuel I, between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century. These works of adaptation, enlargement and improvement determined the physiognomy of the palace.

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Quinta da Regaleira, Rua Barbosa do Bocage, Sintra 2710-567 Portugal

Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most surprising monuments of the Serra de Sintra. Located at the end of the historical center of the village, it was built between 1904 and 1910, in the last period of the monarchy.

The romantic domains formerly belonging to Viscondessa da Regaleira were acquired and expanded by Dr. António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920) to found his place of election. He was the owner of a prodigious fortune, which earned him the nickname of Monteiro dos Millões, and associated his unique architectural and landscape design with the creative genius of the Italian architect and set designer Luigi Manini (1848-1936) as well as the mastery of sculptors, flowerbeds and carvers who had worked with him at the Buçaco Palace Hotel.

Man of scientific spirit, vast culture and rare sensibility, remarkable bibliophile, discerning collector and great philanthropist, this book of stone has imprinted the vision of a cosmology, synthesis of humanity's spiritual memory, whose roots plunge into the Lusa and Universal Mythical Tradition. The architecture and art of the palace, chapel and other constructions were conceived in the context of an edenic garden, emphasizing the predominance of neo-Manueline and Renaissance styles.

The garden, representing the microcosm, is revealed by the succession of places imbued with magic and mystery. Paradise is materialized in coexistence with an inferius - a dantesque subterranean world - to which the neophyte would be led by Ariadne's wire of initiation.

These scenarios are represented by an initiatory journey, such as vera peregrinatio mundi, through a symbolic garden where we can feel the Harmony of the Spheres and examine the alignment of an ascetic consciousness that travels through the great epics. In it are glimpsed references to mythology, Olympus, Virgil, Dante, Camões, the Templar mission of the Order of Christ, great mystics and thaumaturgos, the enigmas of the Royal Art, the Magna Alchemical Work. In this symphony of stone reveals the poetic and prophetic dimension of a Luso Philosophical Mansion. Here Heaven and Earth merge into a sensible reality, the same that presided over the theory of Beauty, Architecture and Music, that the acoustic shell of the Terrace of the Celestial Worlds allows to propagate through the infinite.

Stop At: Praia das Azenhas do Mar, R. Dr. Antonio Brandao de Vasconcelos 40, Colares 2705-084 Portugal

The Azenhas do Mar is one of the most beautiful pearls of the Portuguese coast, and an indispensable stop on any route through Portugal. Literally encrusted in the cliffs of the coast, this small coastal town looks like a village out of any fairy tale.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Estrada Cabo da Roca, Colares 2705-001 Portugal

the westernmost point of Continental Europe, the Cabo da Roca.

Situated at latitude 38º 47' North and longitude 9º 30'W, Cabo da Roca is an important coordinate for navigators along the coast, being the most western point of continental European continent, fact proven by the certificate that the visitors take as memory.

About 150 meters from the sea, here you can have a comprehensive view of the Serra de Sintra and the coast, which makes it worth the visit.

Historical records point to the existence of a fort at Cabo da Roca in the 19th century. XVII that played an important role in the port of Lisbon, forming a defensive line along the coast, especially during the Peninsular Wars. Currently there are only traces in addition to the lighthouse which remains an important point for navigation.


Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Guincho Beach, Parque Natural Sintra-Cascais, Cascais Portugal

Grande do Guincho beach is one of the most appreciated and most affluent beaches in Portugal, bathed by bustling tides with a strong ripple and placed at the foot of the Sintra mountain range

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Boca do Inferno, Northern section of Cascais, Cascais 2750-642 Portugal

Boca do Inferno is a unique formation on the rocks at the edge of the ocean and is one of the most famous points of visit of Cascais.It is believed that in the past this place was a cave that with time and the force of the sea ended up giving and gave rise to scenario as it is known today. Nowadays, Boca do Inferno is an open-air cavity, with a kind of arch through which sea water enters. On days of more agitated sea you can hear the sound of the water striking the rocks, a noise so unique that makes an analogy to the name of the place.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Baía De Cascais, Cascais, 2750-427 Cascais, Portugal

Cascais and Estoril, on the northern coast of Lisbon, have become one of the most cosmopolitan and tourist sites in Portugal, from the moment King D. Luis I chose the bay for his summer residence at the end of the century . XIX.

The mild climate and an average of 260 days without rain a year was certainly a strong reason for this and for the wealthiest families of the time to follow the real house and have their villas and palaces there. It is worthwhile to take the tour and still feel the atmosphere of those times.

Duration: 1 hour