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Must See

The Triton Arch,
encrusted with
Neo-Manueline
decoration Arab Room The cloister, part of the
original monastery
buildings and decorated
Great Hall with colourful tiles

The Romanticist Palácio
Nacional da Pena, located
in the hills of Sintra

Entrance

Entrance arch, a studded
archway topped with
crenellated turrets

FERDINAND: KING CONSORT
Born a German prince, Ferdinand was
known in Portugal as Dom Fernando II,
the “artist” king. Like his cousin Prince
Albert, who married the English Queen
Victoria, he loved art, nature and new
inventions of the time. He was himself
a watercolour painter. Ferdinand
enthusiastically adopted his new country and
devoted his life to patronizing the arts. In 1869, 16
years after the death of Maria II, Ferdinand married
his mistress, the opera singer Countess Edla. His
long-held dream of building the astonishing palace at
Pena was finally completed in 1885, the year he died.

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