Pena Palace

A day trip to Sintra, Portugal from Lisbon

July 13th 2021
Sintra is a small and colorful resort town in the foothills of Portugal’s Sintra Mountains, near the capital, Lisbon. A longtime royal sanctuary, its forested terrain is studded with pastel-colored villas and palaces. Sintra can be a day trip from Lisbon or, one can opt for a night stay there. We took a day trip and it is pretty much doable in a day. We started a little late though around 10:3 ... read more

Europe » Portugal

Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more

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Welcome to my blog. I am Computer Engineer form India living in Sweden. I love travelling and I consider myself blessed to be born and raised in a beautiful country and then living in a beautiful continent now. I have been a vivid traveler in Europe and have traveled a lot in the last 5 years. I also traveled in India before that. This quarantine has made me realize how much I miss travelling. How refreshing it is to go to a new place, try new food, meet new people and the entire experience of being in a unknown territory. I started scrolling down my gallery everyday just to r... full info

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