Page 165 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Portugal

THE
LISBON COAST
Serra de
Sintra Tour

Locator Map
For more detail see p146
Visitors climbing
Castelo dos Mouros,
south of Sintra

End this drive at
Seteais. Now a luxury
hotel and restaurant, From the centre
The cool forest park and this elegant palace was of Sintra’s old town
elaborate 19th-century palace of built in the 18th century (p148), the road winds
Monserrate epitomize the for the Dutch Consul, steeply upwards past
romanticism of Sintra (p158). Daniel Gildemeester. magnificent quintas
(country estates) hidden
among the trees.
Praia da Adraga
Praia da Adraga Ribeira de Cola res
Colares Colares
GalamaresGalamares
Ribeira de Cola res
Seteais Seteais Sintra Sintra
AlmoçagemeAlmoçageme
Penedo Penedo
FINISH
Casas Novas Casas Novas Montserrate Mouros Mouros
Montserrate
Praia da Adraga Parque Parque
Pé da Serra Pé da Serra Convento dos CapuchosConvento dos Capuchos Colares da Pena da Pena Galamares
S e r r a d e S i n t r a
S e r r a d e S i n t r a Casas Novas Penedo START Castelo dos
Castelo dosCastelo dos Ribeira de Cola res
Ulgueira Ulgueira Almoçageme Palácio Nacional da PenaPalácio Nacional da Pena Seteais Sintra
Monte Rodel Monte Rodel
392 m
392 m
Parque
Cabo da Roca Montserrate da Pena Mouros
Cabo da Roca
Pé da Serra Convento dos Capuchos
S e r r a d e S i n t r a
Azoia Azoia Ulgueira Palácio Nacional da Pena
Monge Monge SINTR A
SINTR A
490 m 490 m Monte Rodel
392 m
Cabo da Roca Rio d a Mula Rio d a Mula Pedra Branca Pedra Branca
Peninha Peninha 359 m 359 m
Albufeira do Albufeira do
Rio da MulaRio da Mula
Azoia
Pedra Amarela
Pedra Amarela
408 m 408 m
Monge SINTR A
490 m The spectacular
Palácio Nacional de
Peninha Pena perches on the Pedra Branca
359 m
Rio d a Mula
Begin this drive highest peaks of the Albufeira do
Rio da Mula
at the Parque Serra Sintra (p152).
0 kilometres 1 1 N N da Pena. This Pedra Amarela
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huge, exotic park 408 m
0 miles 0 miles Two huge boulders guard the entrance can be explored
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1
to this remote Franciscan monastery. on foot (p149).
The Convento dos Capuchos was
founded in 1560 and where friars lived
in tiny rock-hewn cells lined with cork.
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