Museums, Monuments and Sites
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Number of results: 36
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Museums and PalacesPalácio Nacional da PenaPena National Palace The fantastic Palácio da Pena is one of the best examples of 19th-century Romantic revivalism in Portugal.Situated at the top of the Monte da Pena, the palace was built on the site of an old monastery belonging to the Order of (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pthttps://www.parquesdesintra.pt/pt/recursos-digitais/experien (...)
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MonumentsCastelo de São JorgeThe Castelo de São Jorge is one of Lisbon’s most distinctive monuments, being situated on the city’s highest hill.The oldest known fortification at this spot dates from the 2nd century BC, although some of the remains found here date from as far (...)
Telephone: +351 218 800 620
Fax: +351 218 875 695
E-mail: info@castelodesaojorge.pt
Website: http://www.castelodesaojorge.pthttp://www.egeac.pt
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MonumentsFortaleza de SagresSagres or the Promontorium Sacrum. This location evokes the memory of the Infante D. Henrique and the Portuguese discoveries. The southwesternmost point in the European continent, was already referred to in antiquity as the Promontorium Sacrum, (...)
Telephone: +351 282 620 140
Fax: +351 282 620 141
E-mail: fortaleza.sagres@cultalg.pt
Website: http://www.cultalg.pt
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MonumentsCastelo dos Mouros - SintraWinding over two ridges of the Serra de Sintra, the Moorish Castle dates back to the early days of the Moorish occupation of the Peninsula - the 8th Century.After various attempts it was definitively taken by Dom Afonso Henriques in 1147, and there (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional de Arte AntigaThis museum is housed in a 17C palace and in a building that stands on the site of a 16C Carmelite convent, of which all that now remains is a Baroque chapel. It is one of the most important Portuguese museums and has a magnificent garden (...)
Telephone: +351 21 391 28 00
E-mail: geral@mnaa.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.museudearteantiga.pt
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Museums and PalacesPalácio e Parque de MonserratePark and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de Sintra.The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional do AzulejoThis museum is housed in the Convento da Madre de Deus, a convent built in 1509 at the orders of the queen, Dona Leonor. The building today is an interesting combination of some remarkable 17C architecture and exuberant 18C Baroque decorations. The (...)
Telephone: +351 21 810 03 40
Fax: +351 21 810 03 69
E-mail: mnazulejo@imc-ip.pt
Website: http://mnazulejo.imc-ip.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu do DouroThe Douro Museum in Peso da Régua is a regional museum and the ideal place for welcoming visitors and showing them a representation of the memory, culture and identity of the Douro wine region, classified as World Heritage.The museum is housed in (...)
Telephone: +351 254 310 190
Fax: +351 254 310 199
E-mail: geral@museudodouro.pt
Website: http://www.museudodouro.pt
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MonumentsConvento dos Capuchos - SintraCapuchos Convent, also known as Santa Cruz or the Cork Convent, was built in 1560 by Dom Álvaro de Castro, in fulfilment of a vow by his father, Dom João de Castro, who was Viceroy of India. Its tiny cells, little chapel, refectory and other (...)
Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00
Fax: +351 21 923 73 50
E-mail: info@parquesdesintra.pt
Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu do OrienteThe Oriente Museum is located in a 1940s building in the Alcântara Dock, with a privileged location next to the River Tagus. It aims to chart the historic relationship between Asia and Portugal – the first country to reach distant Oriental ports.The (...)
Telephone: +351 21 358 52 00
E-mail: info@museudooriente.pt
Website: http://www.museudooriente.pt
