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Lisboa Hotel Príncipe Lisboa Hotel accommodation / Hotel / *** Address: Av. Duque d' Àvila, 201 1050 - 082 Lisboa Telephone: +351 213 592 050 Fax: +351 213 592 055 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.hotelprincipelisboa.com

Oeiras Hotel Ibis Lisboa Oeiras Hotel accommodation / Hotel / ** Address: Auto-estrada A5 - km 9,5 2780-826 Oeiras Telephone: +351 214 230 730 Fax: +351 214 230 779 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.accorhote ls.com/pt/hotel-1634-ibis-lisboa-oeiras/index.shtml

Sintra Hotel Tivoli Palácio de Seteais Hotel Tivoli Sintra Hotel accommodation / Hotel / ***** Hotel accommodation / Hotel / **** Address: Av. Barbosa du Bocage, 8-10 2710 - 517 Sintra Address: Praça da República 2710 - 616 Sintra Telephone: +351 21 923 32 00 Fax: +351 21 923 42 77 Telephone: +351 219 237 200 Fax: +351 219 237 245 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.tivolihotels.com http://www.tivolihotels.com/pt/tivoli-sintra

Quinta das Sequóias Quinta Verde Sintra Tourism in a Manor House Tourism in the Country / Country Houses Address: Casa da Tapada - Estrada de Monserrate 2710 Address: Estrada de Magoito, 84 2710 - 252 Sintra - 405 Sintra Telephone: +351 21 961 60 69 Fax: +351 21 960 87 76 Telephone: +351 219 243 821 Fax: +351 219 106 065 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.quintaverdesintra.com http://www.quintadasequoias.com

Romance Portugal is a land of romance. Something intangible hangs in the air that will seduce and enrapture you.Whether in the country or by the sea, we open up our palaces, farms and manor houses to romance, giving a big-hearted welcome to anyone who (...)

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Sintra Parque da Pena Address: Estrada de Monserrate 2710-405 Sintra Timetable: Winter (25 October to 1 March): 10am - 6pm (Last ticket 5pm); Summer (From 2 March to 24 October) 9.30am - 8pm (Last ticket 7pm);; Access: Buses; Train stations; Characteristics and Services: Guided Tours;

The fruit of King Fernando II´s vivid imagination, Pena Park reflects the intellectual and artistic trends of the 19th century, the era of Romanticism. Together with the architect Baron de Eschwege and the engineer Baron Kessler, King Fernando drew (...)

Museu Virtual Aristides de Sousa Mendes Website: http://mvasm.sapo.pt Dedicated to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux during the Second World War, this Virtual Museum tells the story and background to his acts of disobedience regarding the guidelines issued by the Portuguese government. (...)

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Sintra Chalet da Condessa d´Edla MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra Address: Estrada da Pena2710-609 Sintra Address: Av. Heliodoro Salgado2710-575 Sintra Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Telephone: +351 219 236 101 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt http://www.cm-sintra.pt Timetable: Characteristics and Services: Winter (25 October/1 March): 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (last ticket 5 Shops; Guided Tours; p.m.); Accessibility: Summer (2 March/24 October) 9:30 a.m.- 8 p.m. (last ticket 7 Disabled access; Accessible route to the entrance: Partial; p.m.).; Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area suitable for people Other informations: with special needs; Accessible circulation inside: Total; Guided tours are available for people with special needs, by prior Accessible areas/services: Shop, Toilets; appointment.

The Pena Park is accessible to tourists since it has support facilities for people with impaired mobility. There is the Swiss- Trac device, which can be coupled to manual wheelchairs, and Palácio e Parque de Monserrate an accessible electric bus that takes you to the various points of Address: Estrada de Monserrate 2710-405 Sintra interest. Characteristics and Services: Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Guided Tours; E-mail: [email protected] Website: Accessibility: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt Disabled access; Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to the entrance: Total; Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area Timetable: suitable for people with special needs; Accessible circulation Winter (25 October to 1March): 10am-6.00pm (last ticket at inside: Partial; Accessible areas/services: Toilets; Care skills: 5.00pm); Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services available: Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Summer (2 March to 25 october): 10am-7pm (last ticket at 6.15pm).; Other informations: Chalet of the Countess of EdlaAfter major restoration works in Guided tours are available for people with special needs, by prior the wake of a fire that partially destroyed it, this building was appointment. opened to the public. It preserves the memory of one of the great love stories of Portuguese history and is included in (...) Parques de Sintra ensures accessibility for tourists by providing support facilities for people with impaired mobility. There is the Museu de História Natural de Sintra - Colecção Swiss-Trac system, which can be coupled to manual wheelchairs, Miguel Barbosa and an accessible electric bus that takes you to the various Address: Rua do Paço, nº 20 - Vila de Sintra 2710-602 points of interest. Sintra Characteristics and Services: Telephone: +351 21 923 85 63 / 21 910 52 49 Fax: +351 Shops; Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Restaurant; 21 923 85 20 Payments: E-mail: [email protected] Website: Credit cards accepted; http://www.cm-sintra.pt Accessibility: Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to the entrance: Timetable: Partial; Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area suitable for From Tuesday to Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Saturdays and public people with special needs; Accessible circulation inside: Partial; holidays: 12 p.m.-6 p.m.; Last entry at 5 p.m.. Closed on Accessible areas/services: Shop, Bar/Café, Toilets; Accessible Mondays.; information: Items for tactile exploration; Care skills: Hearing Accessibility: impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services

2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 4/14 [email protected] Disabled access; available: Visual impairment, Hearing impairment, Motor Characteristics and Services: disability, Mental disability; Shops; Guided Tours; Park and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was Housed in a 19th-century building, the Sintra Natural History created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de Museum is located in Rua do Paço, in the town’s historic centre. Sintra.The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with It has a unique collection of thousands of fossils of great cultural fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by (...) and scientific value, put together over 50 years (...) Palácio Nacional da Pena Palácio e Quinta da Regaleira Address: Estrada da Pena 2710-609 Sintra Address: Rua Barbosa du Bocage 2710-567 Sintra Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Telephone: +351 21 910 66 50 Fax: +351 21 924 47 25 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt http://www.regaleira.pt Timetable: Timetable: Winter (25 October to 1March): 10am-6.00pm (last ticket at February, March and October: 10am - 6.30pm 5.00pm); April - September: 10am - 8pm; Summer (2 March to 25 october): 10am-7pm (last ticket at November - January: 10am - 5.30pm.; 6.15pm).; Characteristics and Services: Other informations: Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Wheelchair users cannot enter the Pena Palace because there are a number of steps along the route. Guided tours are Very close to the historic centre of Sintra is Quinta Regaleira, one available for people with special needs, by prior appointment. of the town’s most enigmatic sights.The palace of Quinta da Regaleira was built in the early 20th century by the millionaire Pena Park is accessible and has various facilities to help people António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920), who (...) with impaired mobility, including manual wheelchairs to which a traction device can be fitted, and an accessible bus that covers the route up to the Palace. Palácio Nacional de Sintra

Address: Largo Rainha D. Amélia 2710-616 Sintra Characteristics and Services: Telephone: +351 219 237 300 Fax: +351 219 237 350 Shops; Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Restaurant; E-mail: [email protected] Website: Payments: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt Credit cards accepted; Accessibility: Timetable: Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to the entrance: From 25 October to 1 March: 9.30am-6.00pm (Last admission at Partial; Reception area suitable for people with special needs; 5.30pm); Accessible areas/services: Shop, Bar/Café, Toilets; Care skills: From 2 March to 24 October: 9.30am - 8.00pm (Last admission at Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services 7.00pm); available: Visual impairment, Hearing impairment, Motor Closed: 1 January and 25 December.; disability, Mental disability; Other informations: Guided tours are available for people with special needs, by prior appointment. Pena National Palace The fantastic Palácio da Pena is one of the best examples of 19th-century Romantic revivalism in The visit route in the Sintra National Palace has been changed to Portugal.Situated at the top of the Monte da Pena, the palace better accommodate people with special needs. Accessibility was built on the site of an old monastery belonging to the Order solutions have been installed that include removable equipment of (...) such as ramps, and fixed and reversible equipment such as platform lifts, to ensure that the spaces retain their Sintra Museu Klaus Ohnsmann characteristics. Address: Rua Marechal Saldanha,3 (entrada/entrance Costa do Castelo, 2) 2710-587 Sintra The main entrance has several stair landings, which make it Telephone: +351 21 923 44 87 inaccessible for people with impaired mobility. These visitors are advised to enter through the Palace kitchen, where a ramp can E-mail: [email protected] be installed. From here you can access the Manueline Room and Timetable: then visit the rest of the Palace. 11am - 1pm / 2pm - 7pm (Tuesday to Saturday), 11am - 1pm

(Sunday and holidays), Monday closed; Characteristics and Services: Accessibility: Shops; Guided Tours; Disabled access; Accessibility: Characteristics and Services: Reserved parking spaces; Accessible circulation inside: Partial; Shops; Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Accessible areas/services: Toilets; Care skills: Hearing impairment; Support products/services available: Visual impairment, Hearing impairment; This museum is dedicated to works by the German-born painter Klaus Ohnsmann. Even though he is German, a large part of his extensive curriculum was made in Spain. Having won almost a Sintra National Palace The Sintra national palace is unique hundred national and internacional prizes, Klaus Ohnsmann amongst the royal mediaeval palaces in Portugal and the town’s shows (...) most distinctive building.Beginning with the nation’s first

Monserrate Park wins European Garden Award New World Heritage Sites in Portugal

Sintra's Monserrate Park has won the European Garden Award in Royal Building of Mafra and Sanctuary of Bom Jesus in Braga the category of "Best Development of a Historic Park or Garden". added to the World Cultural Heritage listAt the last meeting of The award, now in its fifth edition, is given out by the European the World Heritage Committee, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Garden Heritage Network (EGHN) and the Schloss Dyck (...) Portuguese list of UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage sites added two (...) Parques de Sintra is the “World’s Leading Conservation Company” Portugal, World's Leading Destination The company Parques de Sintra won the World Travel Award for Portugal was voted the World’s Leading Destination for the third the fourth consecutive time in the category of "World's Leading consecutive year in 2019’s World Travel Awards, held on 28 Conservation Company" at an official ceremony held in the November in Oman. This award reinforced the Europe's Leading Maldives in December.Parques de Sintra has once again been Destination that the country had already won in June.Turismo the (...) (...)

Traditional Portuguese Equestrian Art returns to Belém In July, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art (EPAE), under the management of Parques de Sintra – Monte da Lua, began a programme of regular performances and training sessions open to the general public at the Henrique Calado Riding Hall, (...)

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Sintra The Cultural Landscape of Sintra Other informations: The Cultural Landscape of Sintra;

In 1995, Sintra gained the UNESCO Cultural Landscape classification. The town and the northern slope of the Serra de Sintra with its wonderful natural characteristics and impressive historic landmarks were thus accepted as worthy of world heritage (...)

Green Portugal Portugal, road trips

Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerWild, like it was in the Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerAn unforgivable failure for any beginning. Portuguese nature reserves can congratulate traveller is to believe that magic can only be found in the most themselves for keeping the essence of the Iberian Peninsula and remote places. It is no overstatement to say that Portugal is one the volcanic islands of the Atlantic intact. It’s a journey through of the world’s most wonderful destinations and, (...) (...)

Viewpoints: the most beautiful views in Portugal Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerPortugal treats you to countless landscapes and viewpoints. From the peaceful Lisbon viewpoints to the wild horizons of the Portuguese coast, these landscapes will enthral you at first sight. Portugal offers itself (...)

Lisboa Region Lisbon is Portugal's capital and the hub of a multifaceted area that appeals to different tastes and senses.In a city that has been influenced by many different far-off cultures over time, there is still a village feel in each historic (...)

3 Days in Portugal Discover the Manueline style

In the extreme southwest of Europe, Portugal is a unique country Arising out of the will of a king and from the creative genius that that justifies a delayed visit. Bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, it is a existed in Portugal in the 16th century, Manueline art is a country known for its beaches and the practice of outdoor genuinely Portuguese form of artistic expression.The Age of activities and the fact that it has a good climate, with (...) Discoveries brought great wealth and knowledge to Portugal. (...)

Honeymoon Ideas In the country of tiles After the wedding ceremony and a wonderful reception, comes You can’t miss them, wherever you are in Portugal. Tiles travel the most-awaited moment: your honeymoon, a trip for you both across all-time styles and languages and fill any pavement or to relax and celebrate your love for each other. Discover some of visit with colour.Al-zuleique is the Arabic word that became the the most romantic and inspiring places in Portugal.Close to (...) Portuguese azulejo (tile) and referred to the “small, (...)

Natural parks and reserves Portugal's Top 10 Cultural Features You will find scattered around the country places of preserved beauty, inhabited by a wide diversity of species of flora and There is a strong bond between Portuguese culture and the fauna, where Man and Nature live in perfect harmony. Protected country's geographical location and history. Portugal is Europe's in order to maintain their biodiversity, many of these areas (...) oldest nation and its Atlantic coastline provided the springboard for the Discoveries. Portugal's cultural heritage as well (...) Walking World Heritage in Portugal With its mild year-round climate, walking around Portugal is one of the best ways to find those nooks and crannies that otherwise In Portugal, culture and heritage have unique characteristics you would never get to know.Around city streets, crossing fields stemming from historical events and the outlook of a people or strolling along the beach, walking tours could have (...) who, as they learned from the rest of the world, adapted this new knowledge to their way of living and their land.You’ll (...)

Centro de Portugal

Coimbra Visit to Coimbra On the banks of the river Mondego, Coimbra is famous for its University, the oldest in Portugal and one of the oldest in Europe, which over time has shaped its image to become "the city of students". We begin this visit, precisely at the (...)

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Lisbon Gastronomy Web Summit - What to do near Lisbon?

From grilled sardines to pastéis de Belém (custard tarts), the In 2021, From November 1st to 4th, Portugal will be hosting the food in Lisbon is as appealing as the city and the region.Grilled Web Summit, one of the top events on the technology calendar, sardines are popular throughout Portugal, but in Lisbon they are where new trends and innovative projects are unveiled. It is an particularly traditional during the Popular Saints (...) excellent opportunity to get to know Lisbon and places (...)

2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 11/14 [email protected] Cascais Cascais and the Estoril Coast Cascais and Estoril, or the coast north of Lisbon, became one of the most cosmopolitan and touristic places in Portugal ever since King Luís I chose the bay for his summer residence in the late 19th century.The mild climate and an annual average of (...)

Lisboa Discovering Lisbon Lisbon through the eyes of... José Louro

Lisbon is a city that makes you want to go exploring, to discover The Portuguese host of the Sketch Tour Portugal in Lisbon was whatever might appear in every neighbourhood, on every street. José Louro. Although initially worried about meeting certain It’s a safe and friendly city, relatively small but with so much to expectations Lis Watkins might have had of Lisbon, the feeling of see. It’s an ideal place to spend a few days or (...) surprise while discovering the city was mutual as it is (...)

Sintra Discovering Sintra Sintra - Accessible Itinerary

Sintra, the Moon Hill, is a place full of magic and mystery, where Close to Lisbon, Sintra is a must-visit place in any tourist Nature and Man have combined in such a perfect symbiosis that programme because of its historical and cultural value and the UNESCO has granted it Word Heritage Site status.One-day striking beauty of a landscape that has been classified as a itineraryMorningWhatever your plan, a good suggestion is always World Heritage Site by UNESCO.In the town centre you can take (...) an (...)

Porto and the North

Porto Porto in a few days On a brief visit to Porto, there are some places that cannot be missed. In the words of many visitors, this city has something mystical that is difficult to describe and which varies according to the place, time of day and light.Whatever it is, it (...)

Algarve

Vilamoura VTours Algarve Address: Vilamoura, Avenida da Marina8125-107 Vilamoura Telephone: +351 937 810 713 E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://vtoursalgarve.com/

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Sintra Comboio Turístico de Sintra Go2Cintra® Address: Sintra Address: Rua Veiga da Cunha,282710-627 Sintra Telephone: +351 918 258 001 Telephone: +351 917 855 428 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.comboiodesintra.pt http://go2cintra.com

Tour & Snacks Address: Rua Carracal, 4-3ºE 2725-256 Mem Martins Telephone: +351 964 526 898 E-mail: [email protected]

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Cascais Cascais Situated close to the sea and traditionally a fishing village, Cascais enjoyed an important period of development in the 14th century, when it was a major stopping off point for boats on their way to Lisbon, turning it into a very busy port at that (...)

Sintra Queluz Sintra

Queluz is a populous area in the municipality of Sintra about 12 A beautiful town at the foot of the mountain range of the same kms from Lisbon. In the early 18th century it was the idyllic name, its unique characteristics have led UNESCO to classify it country setting of the royal family's estate and hunting lodge, as a World heritage site. It was even necessary to create a which the Infante Dom Pedro, son of King Dom João V, (...) special category for the purpose - that of "cultural (...)