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2. Sintra - Wikipedia

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   Sintra (/ ˈ s ɪ n t r ə, ˈ s iː n t r ə /, [1] [2] [3] Portuguese: ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera.The population of the municipality in 2021 was 385,654, [4] in an area of 319.23 square kilometres (123.26 sq mi). [5]

3. Pena Palace - Wikipedia

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   The Pena Palace (Portuguese: Palácio da Pena) is a Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera.The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.

4. Sintra-Cascais Natural Park - Wikipedia

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   The park includes the Serra de Sintra Mountain Range but extends all the way to the coast and Cabo da Roca, continental Europe's westernmost point. It contains the Castle of the Moors. Located within 25 km of Lisbon, the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park is a popular tourism area, with many different individual historical and natural sites and ...

5. List of World Heritage Sites in Portugal - Wikipedia

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   The whole system stretches for 58 kilometres (36 mi) from Sintra area to Lisbon. At the time of construction, it contained the world's largest pointed arch with a height of 65 metres (213 ft) and a width of 29 metres (95 ft), it was also the last classical aqueduct to be built anywhere in the world.

6. Sintra National Palace - Wikipedia

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   The other, now known as the Castelo dos Mouros (Castle of the Moors), located atop a high hill overlooking modern Sintra, is now a romantic ruin. The castle now known as Sintra National Palace, located downhill from the Castelo dos Mouros, was the residence of the Islamic Moorish Taifa of Lisbon rulers of the region.

7. Bali to Italy: 39 destinations cracking down on overtourism - AOL

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   Sintra, Portugal . For years, summer ... Local association QSintra says that traffic and disrespectful tourists have made Sintra, to the west of Lisbon, ... said in October that all drinking tours ...