[12.05.2008] After visiting the National Palace in the centre of Sintra, we took a taxi (there‘s also a bus service) to the Palácio da Pena (approximately 5 km out of town). We had only our old guidebooks with us with ugly black and white photos, so we weren´t prepared for what we saw: we bought tickets in a booth beside the street (4 Euro/concession 2 Euro [three years ago]), came into a park where an odd vehicle was waitin [more]

[12.05.2008] It‘s possible to get to Sintra from Lisbon directly but I can‘t tell you anything about this as we went to Cascais first, the seaside town at the mouth of the river Tejo, and took a bus from there. Sintra is a town of about 20 000 inhabitants situated on a slope with the ruins of a Moorish fortress on the top of the mountain. We got off at the highest point of the town, the National Palace which is in the midd [more]