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Classified by UNESCO
as a World Heritage Site, Sintra is an imponent mountain
range sprinkled with palaces, churches, manors and
villages. It is undoubtetdly a privileged location of
unequalled beauty, cultural and natural interest.
The National Palace,
once the preferred summer retreat of Portuguese royalty,
is set in the delightful wooded town of Sintra, on the
edge of the Serra de Sintra mountain range, within
Sintra-Cascais natural park.
Sintra is also the
site of the Pena Palace, from which the last Portuguese
royalty fled after they were deposed in 1910. At the
Capuchin monastery downhill from the Palace, the monk's
cells were hollowed out of the rock of the mountainside,
the reception rooms walls lined with cork to keep out
the damp.
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(Information provided
by Portuguese tourism board)
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