The beautiful Pena Palace is the 2nd most visited monument in all of Portugal. The tickets to visit the inside of the Palace work with time slots, which you can acquire with our help at the reception, or online. Please notice that it is always best to purchase the tickets several days in advance
Colares Wines are unique for various reasons: They are some of the oldest wines in Portugal, dating back to year 1255 A large part of the vines grow deep in sand dunes – a detail that protected them from the 1865 phylloxera plague They get their special taste from the harsh coastal climate
Millions of years ago (125 million to be a bit more exact), large dinosaurs roamed in Sintra. Plant eating Saurôpodes and Ornitôpodes as well as meat eating Terôpodes, walked on these lands way before the Sintra Mountain was a mountain. They were all about 2.5meters tall only until the hip. We
Just a bit above the village, in our view, there is a mansion called Chalet Biester. Its black roof with turquoise trimming causes a lot of questions and awakes the curiosity of many Sintra visitors. Yes, it is where the Roman Polanski thriller ‘The Ninth Gate’ was filmed, starring
(Updated January, 2021) Looking up from the pool, and almost everywhere from the grounds, you see Serra de Sintra, the Sintra Mountain. On the top of it, a colourful palace is erected. What now is one of the most visited monuments in Sintra and in Portugal, used to be a chapel, constructed in
(Updated in January, 2021) Looking up from our pool toward the mountain, next to Pena Palace, the Moorish Castle is erected. Well, it looks like it’s right next to it but in fact it is not. They are both up the mountain, on different hill tops. The Moorish Castle winds over two ridges of
(Updated in January, 2021) One of the most visited places of Sintra, Quinta da Regaleira is opposite of our pool, on the other side of the valley. It is our guests’ favourite monument to visit in Sintra, maybe because it is easily reachable on foot, because it is so mysterious – or
As I have mentioned before, I frequently walk in the mornings with my dog; up and down the hills, into the forest and mountain roads. Recently there has been an extra burden on my walks. It is lent, the 40 days between Carnival and Easter. Tradition says you give up something for those 40 days that
