SINTRA
Sintra, whose Cultural Landscape is classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, is located on a granite mountain range less than an hour from Lisbon. Its unique microclimate, made it a favourite summer resort of kings and aristocrats, who built palaces and planted gardens and forests, thus creating the perfect romantic atmosphere and consequently magic venues to host civil or symbolic wedding ceremonies.The Park and Palace of Monserrate represent one of the most beautiful architectural and landscape Romantic creations in Portugal. The Palace combines gothic and Indian influences as well as Moorish suggestions together with exotic and plant motifs which are harmoniously extended to the exterior. Located in the Sintra hills, the Park and Palace of Pena are the fruit of King Ferdinand II’s creative genius and the greatest expression of 19th-century romanticism in Portugal, denoting clear influences from the Manueline and Moorish styles of architecture. The park consists of a forest and luxurious gardens with different species of trees originating from the four corners of the earth.