Monserrate Palace & gardens

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March 31st 2022
My first tour with Francisco. A enjoyable walk through the gardens to reach the beautiful Palace of Monserrate - The villa a whimsical Arabian design, surrounded by classical English gardens, and set in the jagged hills of the Serra de Sintra. The tri-towered Palacio de Monserrate was inspired by Islamic architecture and the ideal of symmetry. Inside there is exquisitely fines lattice carvings, ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Sintra

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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