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

Castle of the Moors, Sintra After checking into my Deluxe ... I set out to explore Sintra on foot. Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. Walking down steep, twisting lanes into the centre of town ...

Braga, one of Portugal’s oldest cities, is steeped in religious and architectural history. A visit to the Bom Jesus do Monte ...

Bring comfortable shoes: You'll need to do a lot of walking to enjoy the major sites, including the National Palace of Sintra, the National Palace of Pena and the Moors' Castle, an 8th or 9th ...

The medieval town centre is topped by Sao Jorge Castle ... with Portugal’s golden age of world discoveries and has fantastic monuments and Jeronimos Monastery, with ornate Gothic and Moorish ...

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

Want to spend the perfect 4 days in Lisbon? This guest guide by Hannah of That Adventurer has you covered, and I’ve added ...

There is history; from the 12th-century Moorish castle that dominates the skyline ... tomb of the great navigator Vasco de Gama, who led Portugal’s Golden Age of Discovery, as well as that ...