Visit the Parque da Pena - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Pena Park located in the Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim, in the Serra de Sintra is a walled compound, located on the summits of the area east of the Eastern Sierra, with high cliffs and sharp valleys, north exposure preferred. The maximum height of the park is at High Cross (the highest peak in the Sierra, with 528 meters) and the lower zone is the Feteira Countess, standing at 380 meters.
The park is composed of multiple plots, over its nearly 200 hectares, with different characteristics, served by a very widespread network of paths which constitute a real and deliberate maze. Inside, stand buildings of great beauty, like the Countess Chalet, the Temple of Columns, the Throne, the Palace and the Lakes.

Visit the Viewpoint of Santa Eufemia - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Mirador de Santa Eufemia, located on the highest point of the Serra de Sintra, in the parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra), displays the entire area to the Sintra, Cascais, Amadora, Oeiras and Lisbon and visibility is good Tagus River andsouthern shore .

Visit High Cross - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The High Cross, is the highest point of the Serra de Sintra, 528 meters high, in the Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim.

Visit the Moorish Castle - San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra)

The Moorish Castle, located in the Parish of San Pedro de Penaferrim (Sintra), is classified as National Monument
The monument features organic plant (adapted to the terrain) with about 450 meters long and 12,000 square meters.
Erected on a rocky massif, isolated in the ridges of the Sintra hills, the top of its walls opens up a privileged view of all its rural surroundings which stretches to the Atlantic Ocean.
Its walls are composed of a double belt, exterior and interior. The East is still visible sections of the outer wall, where is the port rotation of access to the grounds. The top of the inner wall, with battlements, is covered with parapet, being reinforced by several towers.

The walls were performed using the technique of rope and tissão that can still be seen in his best haul maintained. Loved ashlars with about 30-40 cm high, are placed alternately in width and length. These are short intervals by narrow bands of stones embedded in mortar. This technical change was above 4.5 m height, where it starts to record a lower quality, the result of a second construction phase. In another section of wall visible area of ​​union between the different techniques used, inheritance of the different stages of intervention.
In addition to the embattled walls, towers and battlements, the set is completed by several ramps and stairs for access.
Another noteworthy element is the port in Arabic horseshoe arch.
The wall features five towers: four rectangular and one circular plan pyramid surmounted by battlements, with no more trace of the two floors and roofing system primitives.
The tower at the higher elevation of the land, also known as the Royal Tower is accessed via a staircase of 500 steps. In the Islamic period constituted themselves in the citadel. In the Christian period there appears to have lived Ribeiro, a Portuguese writer of the sixteenth century.

Visit the palace of Seteais - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Seteais Palace, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), was built in the eighteenth century to the Dutch consul, Daniel Gildemeester, a portion of land ceded by the Marquis of Pombal. Framed in the middle of a rugged terrain, where one can see the sea and the top of Serra de Sintra.
Presents neoclassical architecture, highlighting the entry, with triangular gables, sash windows and a ladder of two arms that develops inwards towards the secondary façade. You can also see the adaptation of the palace to the irregularity of the terrain.
Altogether, there are two sets of composite plant - the left wing, with plant in U, which develops around the patio, and the right wing with rectangular shape. The main facades are symmetrical, the two records. The halls of the left wing side moldings are painted with flowers and wreaths, highlighting the room Pillement with figurative scenes written by Jean Baptiste Pillement, and the Hall of the Convention, with mythological allusions sea.
From salienetar yet for wide staircase, two arms and three sections, giving access to lower floor. This is the Palace described as abandoned on the famous work of Eça de Queiroz "The Mayas ".

Visit the Statue of the Guerreiro - São Martinho (Sintra)

The Statue of Warrior, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), in the Serra de Sintra, the date of the construction period of the Pena Palace.

The warrior is dressed in a medieval kind of armor, including a beautiful helmet. In his right hand holding a spear, and with the left holds a shield on which is carved a boat sails gathered. In the square base of the Warrior is registered number 1848.

Visit the Ribeira da Laje - Rio de Mouro

Ribeira da Laje which rises in the mountain, through the Town of Rio de Mouro, and flows into the river Tagus, in Oeiras, at the far west of the beach of Santo Amaro de Oeiras.

Visit the Serra de Sintra

The Serra de Sintra belongs to the same mountain range of Serra da Estrela, which ends in Cabo da Roca, marking the western limit of Europe. Is about 10 kilometers from east to west and approx 5 km wide with its highest peak at an altitude of 529 meters. It has a rich fauna, with her ​​example, fox, genets, the mole salamander, the peregrine falcon, the viper and various species of lizards. Its climate is mild with plenty of oceanic influences, and this gives it a higher rainfall compared to the rest of the Greater Lisbon area. It also follows a unique vegetation. About nine hundred species of plants are indigenous and 10% are endemic. Some of them are oak, cork oak and stone pine. Paa is an ideal place for climbing and mountaineering, since the slopes are mostly oriented to the west, which lengthens the light on summer afternoons in the Sintra hills is that we can find the Moorish Castle, the Pena Palace, the Capuchin monastery, the Palace of Monserrate.