Just a few minutes from Lisbon on the highway, the magic village of Sintra stands like a piece of jewellery recovered from the tunnel of time. Formerly a Roman emplacement, then a piece of the culture of Al-Andalus, the Muslim village rendered without fighting to the Portuguese king Alfonso Henriques, and became the recreation residence of the royal family as soon as in the XV century. Hidden into the beauties of the Serra de Sintra, a protected natural park since 1994, the village mix with nature to make an unique environment that ... (more)