French: Paysage culturel de Sintra
The Cultural Landscape of Sintra is a World Heritage site in Portugal defined by the UNESCO in 1995 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 201 (150, 233) in our monthly survey..
"In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other fine dwellings, built along the same lines in the surrounding serra, created a unique combination of parks and gardens which influenced the development of landscape architecture throughout Europe."
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