The day I arrived, the Portuguese national parks service announced that all but one of Sintra’s palaces would be closed due to the risk of fire. Bushfires were burning across more than 100,000ha of ...

For the last several months, my social media feed has been buzzing with amazing, colourful pictures of Sintra, with many ...

Pena Palace stands as Sintra's crowning jewel. Sitting high above the town on a hill, this vibrant castle is a whimsical ...

Sintra's most famous hotel ... to the photogenic and colorful 19th-century Pena Palace, on a nearby hillside. Once the home of the Dutch consul in Portugal, it later was the residence of the ...