Custom Search

Friday, March 11, 2011

Visit Sintra

Sintra is a village in the district of Lisbon.
It is home to a city 317 km ² and 445,872 inhabitants (2008), divided by 20. The city is limited to the northern city of Mafra, east of Loures and Odivelas, southeast by Amadora, south of Oeiras and Cascais and the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
The town of Sintra is classified as a Cultural Landscape of Sintra, a UNESCO world heritage

History

We meet in Sintra testimony of virtually every period of Portuguese history. The earliest evidence of human occupation are at a summit of the north slope of the Serra de Sintra.
It is the occupation Epipaleolithic Penha Verde, proven by abundant type microblades utensils. Testimony of an occupation is the Neolithic site of outdoor Canaferrim of St Peter, near the Chapel of the Moorish Castle. Traces of several Atlantic Bronze Age (second half of II millennium BC - the beginningof I), arise in different parts of the Sintra hills. Late Bronze period or Orientalia IX-VI centuries BC, the new and intensely facing the Mediterranean, there is alarge and important town located in the Moorish Castle.
At the time of the Roman Empire the region of Sintra enrolled in the civitas Olisiponensis territorium wide,to which about 30 BC Octavian, granted the enviable status Municipium Civium Romanorum.
During the Muslim rule there were the first texts that explicitly refer to the town of Sintra (or Xinta Shantou in Arabic). Sintra is presented by the tenth century geographer Al-Bacri, set by Al-Munim Al-Himiari as'one of the villages that depend on Andaluz Lisbon, near the sea. "
Only after the conquest of Lisbon by D. Afonso Henriques in 1147, Sintra - the castle's garrison surrenders to the king in November - is permanently integrated into the new Christian in the context of the conquest of Almada, Palmela. Soon after the swearing in of Castle, D. Afonso Henriques then founded the church of San Pedro de Canaferrim.
On January 9, 1154 D. Afonso Henriques grant scharter to the town of Sintra with its perks. TheCharter establishes the Provincial Municipality of Sintra, whose term now covers a vast territory, later divided into four parishes: St. Peter of Canaferrim, headquartered near the Castle parish, St. Martin, with headquarters in the parish center of town; and Santa Maria and Sao Miguel, both headquartered in Suburban Parish.
The great epidemics of plague during the fourteenth century that wiped out a quarter of the population of Europe came to Sintra in 1348 and there is news, in a document of 1350, the disease killed five notaries of the city administration. Due to cold weather and humid Sintra plague must have made the town aconsiderable number of deaths.
The 1755 earthquake caused the town of Sintra and its end heavy damage and numerous deaths. It is this second half of the eighteenth century they result, in the village Palace, and restoration. Need to be registered in the nineteenth XVIIl, the founding of the first industrial unit in
the county, the Stamping Plant in Rio de Mouro, in 1778, and the visit of Queen Mary Ito the Village in 1787, which for some time been redecorated rooms and chambers of the palace. But the big parties in 1795, named by the Prince Anthony, son of D. John VI, was celebrated with grandeur at the Palace of Queluz ... And until the king's consort D. Ferdinand buy Pena Monastery and a wide adjacent area in 1838, just note that the arc of the architect Costa e Silva, built the Palace of the Marquis de Seteais membership Marialva, in 1802 to commemorate the visit of the Princes of Brazil, D.John D. and Carlota Joaquina and the visit of the absolutist King Miguel in 1830.
In the early twentieth century, Sintra was a recognized place of resort and residence of aristocrats and millionaires.

Geography

Its highest point has an altitude of 528 meters. Within the contextual nature, architecture and human settlement, Sintra shows a single unit, the result of different reasons combined, including the peculiar climate provided by the massive orographic which isthe Serra de Sintra and the fertility of the land surrounding deposited in the floodplains. The relative proximity of the Tagus estuary, and - from a given era- the neighborhood of Lisbon, cosmopolitan city and varied emporium of trade, made early in the Sintra region was the target of intense human occupation. Seaside village of Colares, in Sintra, located in Cabo da Roca. 140m above sea level, is the western most point of mainland Europe.
The 20 parishes of the municipality are: Agualva, Colares, Almargem Bishop, Fine, Cacém, Casal de Cambra, Necklaces, Massamá, Mira-Sintra, Mount Abraham, Montelavar, Pero Pinheiro, Queluz, Rio de Mouro, Santa Maria and St. Michael, St. John of Lampas, St. Mark, St. Martin, St Peter Penaferrim and Terrugem.

Climate

Two factors contribute significantly to climatic conditions that are felt in the region Sintra. The first has to do with the situation of the
county over the Atlantic Ocean, the second barrier to the condensation that the Serra de Sintra is.
Thus we see that the radiation levels decrease from southwest to northeast, ie as we approach the coast. Heatstroke has the same kind of variation but, in the zone of Sierra record is as low as those occurring in Assafora and adjacent territory, which is due to cloudy existing there. As for temperature, it has its lowest values ​​in the area of the Sierra and in the extreme northeast of the county, in the first case because of the altitude and the second concerning the conditions of continentality. Finally, with regard to precipitation, there are two very different situations: a drier, near the coast, and a more moist, which covers the area of direct influence of the Sierra (where the rain fallreaches its maximum) and the entire eastern area the county.

Gastronomy

The village has some much appreciated food specialties, such as biscuits regional "pillows", roast kid, and the famous cheesecake from Sintra.



In the Town of Necklaces:
Adega Regional de Colares
Typical Village Azenhas Sea
Cabo da Roca
Chapel of Praia das Macas
Caves Visconde Salreu
Fountain Village
Fountain Azinhaga
Fountain Azóia
Fountain New Queen's Road
Fountain Presinha
Fountain of Quinta do Vinagre
Fountain Ribeira
Fountain Varzea
Fountain Azenhas sea
Fountain cell
Fountain of Gigarós
Fountain of Saint Sebastian
Fountain of Vila Cha
Fountain in Largo Abel Slater
Fountain of Church Square
Fountain of Largo Almoçageme
Fountain in Largo do Penedo
Fountain of Laundry
Fountain of Valérinho
Fountain of Vinegar
Fountain Carreiros
Fountain Party People
Convento de Santa Ana of the Carmelite Order
Bandstand Azenhas Sea
Bandstand Almoçageme
Bandstand Necklaces
Bandstand Penedo
Cruise's Church of Mercy
Cross Parish Church
Cruise Azenhas Sea
Cruise Almoçageme
Cross of St. Andrew of Almoçageme
Cruise Penedo
Cruise from San Sebastian
Dolmen Adro Nunes
Chapel MILIDIU
Chapel of St. Lawrence
Chapel of St. Sebastian
Farol do Cabo da Roca





Where to sleep:
House of Alameda
House Pinheira
Chalet Clock
Camping Almornos
Penha Longa Hotel and Golf Resort
Pestana Sintra Golf Resort & Spa Hotel
Quinta do Corvo
Quinta das Sequoias
Quinta do Rio Corn
Quinta de Sao Thiago
Quinta Verde Sintra
Vineyard Farm
Quinta da Luz
House Banners
Casa do Valle
The Belvedere House
Five B & B
Estalagem Solar Moorish
Apartments from Tomadia
Hotel Tivoli Palácio de Seteais
Hotel Tivoli Sintra
Lawrence's Hotel
Moon Hill
Hotel D'Lirius Blues
Economic Board
Hotel Nova Sintra
Residencial Sintra
Piela's
Pousada D. Mary I
Quinta das Murtas
Quinta dos Bernards
Quinta da Boiça
Residential Fiquebem
Villa Jacinta White
Moorish Villa Sintra
House Buglione
Casal Santa Virginia
Casa Sete Mares
Casa Montserrat
Mill House
Casalinho St. Anthony
Estalagem de Colares
Hotel Arribas
Hotel Vip Inn Miramonte
Residencial Oceano
Residencial Real
Quinta do Rio Touro
Sol Sintra
Solar Magoito
Surfiberia
Villa Cinthia
Publicada por em
Etiquetas: , , , , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)