This Private Tour it´s perfect for you, who doesn’t want your visit to Sintra to be a headache.
For on this private tour you will have a driver and a guide who will always accompany you, whether you are visiting the palaces (included) or visiting the center of Sintra and the center of Cascais.
* Duration: 8 hours
* Starts: Lisbon, Portugal
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
This Private Tour it´s perfect for you, who doesn’t want your visit to Sintra to be a headache.
For on this private tour you will have a driver and a guide who will always accompany you, whether you are visiting the palaces (included) or visiting the center of Sintra and the center of Cascais.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: National Palace of Queluz, Largo do Palacio, Queluz 2745-191 Portugal
In our Private Tour our first visit will be to the Queluz Palace, here was the Portuguese Royal Family living at the time of the French invasion, which forced the Royal Family to move the capital to Brazil. In this palace was born and died Dom Pedro IV, Dom Pedro I of Brazil.
A Rococo-style palace that stands out in its fantastic unequal gardens, with a sequence of Tuscan terraces and columned galleries, topped by a monumental staircase, a very strong statuary decoration clearly inspired by classical and allegorical mythology, connoted the geometric beauty. the boxwood hedges and the polychromatic tiles with the stone and bronze of many of its statues.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Sintra, Sintra, Sintra Municipality, Lisbon District, Central Portugal
We will now enjoy the center of Sintra, with its alleys and narrow streets, where usually its very difficult to park, however this will not be a problem since we will have a driver and a guide who will accompany you and show you the best shops and take you to the famous Piriquita bakery and show you Sintra local pastry.
Sintra a fantastic place with a wide concentration of historical monuments and interesting tourist attractions, here we will find more than 10 national monuments, including opulent palaces, ancient ruins and decorative palatial houses scattered across the different hills of the region and this in quite challenging walking paths.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Park and National Palace of Pena, Estrada da Pena, Sintra 2710-609 Portugal
Time to visit Sintra ex-libris, and one of the most famous palaces in the region, the Pena Palace, inspired by the Bavarian palaces in Gremany, the Palace is undoubtedly the best example of Portuguese Romantic architecture, has begun to be built. in 1839 at the behest of King Fernando II of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, king consort King Fernando II for his marriage to Dona Maria II who eventually acquired the ruins of the Monastery of Our Lady of Pena and turns it into a palace that falls in love with thousands every year.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Estrada Cabo da Roca, Colares 2705-001 Portugal
Between Sintra and Cascais, we have Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of the European continent, as the illustrious Portuguese poet Luis de Camões wrote “where the earth ends and the sea begins” (Canto VIII).
Its imposing Lighthouse, perched on its 165 meters built in 1772, teaches us the importance of this place in overseas studies in the past, revealing one of the most emblematic places in Portugal.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Guincho Beach, Parque Natural Sintra-Cascais, Cascais Portugal
The guide will suggest a restaurant according to your interests, whether in Sintra with a typical restaurant, or even in the Guincho region where you will find the famous Cascais restaurants, famous for their fish and seafood.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Cascais, Cascais, Lisbon District, Central Portugal
In Cascais our driver leaves us by the Bay and our guide will give escort us and give us an introduction to this lovely region, today a fantastic place to live or even a small vacation full of small fishing boats. Cascais was for centuries chosen by the Portuguese royal family for holidays that eventually dragged all the nobility with them, in the center, more precisely Largo de Camoes, will find many craft shops.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Estoril, Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon District, Central Portugal
Time for a brief stint in Estoril on the way to Lisbon, the Estoril known as the stage of European espionage during World War II, Yan Fleming the writer who gave life to the books and later 007 films (James Bond) had lived there.
There´s the Estoril Casino (considered the largest in Europe).
