Visit the village of Sintra - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The town of Sintra, which belongs to the town of Sao Martinho (Sintra), a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its romantic architecture of the nineteenth century.
Sintra has become a major tourist attraction especially for the fabulous Pena Palace (XIX century) and the Moorish Castle, with stunning views of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, and the summer residence of the kings of Portugal Palácio Nacional de Sintra. The Serra de Sintra, one of the largest parks in the Lisbon area is also a major tourist attraction.
In 1809, Byron wrote to his friend Francis Hodgson, "I just observe that the village of Sintra, Estremadura is the most beautiful in the world."

Visit the Fifth clock - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Visit to Quinta de Monserrate - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Visit Quinta da Ribafria - São Martinho (Sintra)

Visit the palace and Regaleira Estate Millions - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Regaleira Estate, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra) in the historical center of Sintra, classified World Heritage by UNESCO, was built in the early twentieth century, the romantic ideal, this fascinating collection of buildings in the middle of forest, is the result of achieving the dreams of its owner, Antonio Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920), combined with the talent of the Italian architect-designer Luigi Manini (1848-1936).
Fifth Regaleira presents a magnificent landscape with gardens and buildings, which highlights the Palace of the Million and Holy Trinity Chapel

The culmination of the visit to the Fifth Regaleira, we must rely on the adventure of the Knights Templar, or the ideals of the Master Masons, to descend into the pit initiation by a huge spiral staircase. And, deep down with your feet on an eight-pointed star, is like being immersed in the womb of Mother Earth. Then, we can only go through the dark labyrinth of caves, to reach the light, reflected in lakes amazing.

Visit the Quinta da Penha Verde - São Martinho (Sintra)

The original house of the Quinta da Penha Verde, located in the Parish of St. Martin (Sintra), was built by D. João de Castro. Later, the building was extensively modified and expanded by acquiring the then current appearance.

Thursday's entry is preceded by a single doorway, datable to the late seventeenth century, surmounted by a pediment which overlaps the crest of the Castros.
It has a small garden in the style of the eighteenth century, and before that frames the mansion. This plant has a somewhat irregular, integrating, however, in line with the traditional Portuguese architecture Aulica. The jambs of doors and windows are covered with large and simple stonework. The interior is marked by sobriety, highlighting the great hall of the upper floor with a wood paneled ceiling and a painting representing a central coat of arms.
The chapel of St. Blaise, integrated into the main body of the mansion, dates from the seventeenth century. The wall of the chancel is completely coated with a polychrome tile panel, whose design represents a curtain half-open, clear theatrical cut, the center of this composition stands a finely carved stone pedestal, which rises is a pride and stony image of St. Blaise, the altar is working on multi-colored marble.
There is also a small hill of his Fifth, a circular chapel of prayer to Our Lady of the Mount, especially inside the vaulted ceiling, tiled the seventeenth century nave and the small altar. Upon this altar, covered with tiles Mudejar, is a bas-relief of fine marble, representing the Holy Family Framed and apparently supported by a panel painted ceramic angels.
Later, in the seventeenth century. were erected in two other chapels Penha Verde, also circular. Refer them first of Santa Catarina, whose pediment bearing the "wheel of knives," a symbol of his martyrdom, in the interior, which is much simpler, only enhances the altar inlaid with marble, and on it, an ancient image of Santa Catarina. Next is the Chapel of St. John the Baptist inside lined with magnificent polychrome tiles that illustrate the life and death of St. John; turn under a small arch, rises the altar profusely decorated with multicolored stones, shells and pottery .

Visit Pelourinho de Sintra - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

Pelourinho de Sintra, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), is to copy the old March Manueline overthrown in 1854. it is a work of the master stonemason Joseph Fonseca, erected in 1940. Presents three steps that serve as a hexagonal punch the octagonal base of the pillory. This, helical shaft adorned with rosettes and quadripétalas presents, half, two strings separated by a concavity. The capital boasts with acanthus leaves, in the shot, and iron pine cone to the top. The entablature emerge four irons bondage.

Visit the Parque da Liberdade - São Martinho (Sintra)

The Liberty Park, located in the Parish of St. Martin (Sintra), has a majestic entrance, inside you will find a huge variety of plants, trees and flowers, and the opportunity to discover its mysterious recesses.

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 Monserrate Palace - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Monserrate Palace, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra) and inserted into the Monserrate Park was designed by architect James Knowles and built in 1858 by order of Sir Francis Cook, Viscount Monserrate, while production of the gardens was delivered the painter William Stockdale, the botanist William Nevill and James Burt, a master gardener. This palace was the summer residence of the Cook family, was built on the ruins of the mansion built by the neo-Gothic English merchant Gerard of Visma, who owned the granting of import of Brazil wood in Portugal and was responsible for the first palace Monserrate. William Beckford leased the property in 1793, performing works in the palace, beginning to create a landscaped garden. It's an evocative of Portuguese Romanticism, alongside other palaces in the region, such as the Pena Palace. During the 1920s, the palace was put up for sale, and was finally purchased by the state in 1949.

In the gardens of this palace can be seen various botanical specimens. The Palace is classified as a Public Interest.
The Monserrate Palace was visited by Lord Byron, Anglo-Scottish poet, who wrote the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"on the Palace.

Visit the National Palace - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The National Palace of Sintra, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), also known as Palácio da Vila.

It was one of the royal palaces and today is owned by the Portuguese State, who uses it for purposes of tourism and culture. Urban deployment, its construction began in the fifteenth century.

Presents characteristics of medieval architecture, Gothic, Manuel I, Renaissance and romantic. It is considered an example of organic architecture, the set of bodies apparently separated, although they are part of a whole articulated among themselves, through courtyards, staircases, corridors and galleries.

The palace was used by the Royal Family almost until the end of the monarchy in 1910.

Plant complex, organized into "V" and has spread volume, consists mainly of cobbles, with coverage carried by the four different roofs varied waters.

Characteristic feature of this palace, quickly identified by tourists, is the pair of tall conical chimneys. The main elevation is organized into three sections, with the highest central and retreated to the relatively extreme. There is also an arcade on the ground floor with four arches, surmounted by five mullioned windows and emoludramento limestone. The other fronts of the building show a complex mix reentrant and salient bodies, especially the cubic volume of the Hall of Arms.

The internal compartments are reflected in nuclei arranged around courtyards. Noteworthy are the following: the Archers' Hall, the Hall Moura (or Arab), the Sala das Pegas, the Swan Room, the Hall of Arms, the Hall of the Sirens and the Hall of Audience.

The chapel is rectangular and nave, with walls covered by paintings and decorative wood ceiling. In the kitchen are visible from startups monumental octagonal chimneys. Some magazines call Manueline wing spans of bearing moldings and fireplaces in limestone, characterized by relief decoration.

This Palace is classified as a National Monument.

Visit the Palace of Ribafria - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Palace of Ribafria, located in the Parish of St. Martin (Sintra), was built in the first half of the sixteenth century, and consists of three bodies arranged in a U.

In the austere facade are noticeable changes caused by various restoration works. Thus, evidence is beyond the Manueline windows, others have pombalino imprint. Access to the courtyard shall beby a gate surrounded by a simple beveled edges.

The domed atrium, have war heads that are based on a complex interplay of arches and ribs, born of different angles: this lobby is also decorated with a medieval theme eardrums, while the vault locks were designed to the renewed artistic conceptions of the time. We also emphasize the existence of two round arches, supported by pillars and Italian-capitals, and ornamented with scrolls and frowns.

Another court, also vaulted ribbed by warheads, giving access to stairs leading to the large loggia. In the loggia, Renaissance-style markedly, there is a fountain with a canopy, partially covered with a beautiful Mudejar tiles.

The Chapel is closed and emptied its entire contents.

Visit the Museum Ferreira de Castro - San Martinho (Sintra)

Ferreira de Castro Museum, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), came as a result of the donation made by the writer of his estate to the People of Sintra.

The Museum opened its doors on June 6, 1982. Closed for renovations three years later, would reopen on July 22, 1992, after remodeling of the exhibition contents and preparation of a new visitor's guide.

Ferreira de Castro Museum presents chronologically the existential journey of the writer, grouped into seven themes:

"Childhood" (1898-1911), refers to the writer's childhood in "native village" in the Willows, Ossela parish, municipality of Oliveira de Azemeis, a period of intimate contact with the verdant nature of the region, which would mark both it.

"In Brazil - The Amazon jungle to Belem do Para" (1911-1919), recounts the time when Ferreira de Castro lived as a child and alone in a rubber plantation in the Amazon (until 1914) and experience in dramatic and convoluted Of Bethlehem many objects of interest displayed by highlighting the manuscript for Criminal Ambition, Parintintins masks of the Indians (now extinct tribe) land of the plantation where Castro worked, and for copies of Criminal Greed and Alma Lusitana, both of 1916, the first titles he published.

"The Return - Journalism and work renegade" (1919-1927), shows part of the journalistic activity and displays the books that match the first phase Ferreira de Castro - Mas ... (1921) The Flight in the Dark (1927) - which he removed from his complete works which today are bibliographic rarities.

"Triumph - From Emigrants to the direction of the Devil" (1928-1935), "The Last Wanderer" (Travel, 1929-1939), "The Master - The Storm From the Fragments" (1940-1974) include the time Ferreira de Castro who reigned as the preeminent author of Portugal then. It is the period of The Jungle, Cold Land, Wool and Snow, Curve Road, Mission ...

The Portuguese writer translated most of his time in the last room were exposed to translations of his works in several languages.

Visit the Toy Museum - São Martinho (Sintra)

The Toy Museum, located in the Parish of St. Martin (Sintra), was established in 1989, having moved to the former premises of fire fighters from Sintra in 1997. The museum has an exhibition of more than 40 000 pieces of many different toys.

Visit the Museum of Natural History - Sao Martinho (Sintra)

The Natural History Museum is located in the Historic Centre of Vila Velha de Sintra, in the Parish of St. Martin, a building of 1893. In it, the public is exposed to a long-term exposure consists of thousands of fossils of cultural and scientific value incalculável. Este Museum also has a Temporary Exhibition prepared for exhibitions and other events.

Visit the Museum of Living Science - São Martinho (Sintra)

The Museum of Living Science of Sintra, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), is a space for dissemination of science and technology, installed in the former building of the tram. This museum is integrated into the National Network of Science Centers, Live and an exhibition on the human body and the world around them.

Visit the Museum Anjos Teixeira - São Martinho (Sintra)

Angels Teixeira Museum, located in St. Martin Parish, located in the Volta do Duche, has an important collection of sculpture, bronzes, plaster studies, drawings, models and other works of Pedro Augusto dos Anjos Teixeira and his father Artur Angels Teixeira. In addition to the neo-realist sculptures of the master Anjos Teixeira can also observe collections of paintings, drawing and photography.