Sintra Trip Overview
+ Feel Sintra Mountains in total silence, broken only by the wind and the hoot of the owl
+ See the sunset with the Atlantic Ocean in the distance
+ Admire the Sintra Mountains’ past the words of an Historian
+ Walk in the evening in one of the most untouched parts of Sintra Mountains
+ Be accompanied by the sensibility, the eyes and the words of Miguel Boim, writer and Historian, author of “Sintra Legendary” (on its 2nd edition) – lectures and speeches on Sintra’s history to more than 12K people (as to 2018 data)
+ You may feel like you have related to Sintra’s History and Heritage.
Additional Info
* Duration: 5 hours
* Starts: Sintra, Portugal
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Sintra, Lisboa, Portugal
+ Feel Sintra Mountains in total silence, broken only by the wind and the hoot of the owl
+ See the sunset with the Atlantic Ocean in the distance
+ Admire the Sintra Mountains’ past the words of an Historian
+ Walk in the evening in one of the most untouched parts of Sintra Mountains
+ Be accompanied by the sensibility, the eyes and the words of Miguel Boim, writer and Historian, author of “Sintra Legendary” (on its 2nd edition) – lectures and speeches on Sintra’s history to more than 12K people (as to 2018 data)
+ You may feel like you have related to Sintra’s History and Heritage.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Sintra Railway Station, Av. Dr. Miguel Bombarda, Sintra 2710-590 Portugal
Two hours before the sunset you will be picked up by car at Sintra’s train station. Sintra’s Castle, Pena Palace and the forest will begin soon to surround you.
Stop At: Sintra Mountains, N375, Sintra Portugal
Once arrived to the western part of Sintra Mountains, your walk will begin, as well as your journey to distant past, through the words of an Historian.
The walk will be about 5 kilometers, spanning around 4 hours, in regular and soft irregular terrain. The effort implied is equivalent to spending a whole afternoon strolling around Sintra, with its ups and downs.
Considering in the usual nocturnal walks one can recognize through the foliage, among the arches that defines the old history of Mountain and Village, History of old stories and accounts, in “Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves” you’ll travel under the black arc of the great sky, dotted with a thousand stars, to a past that’s hard or impossible to imagine.
But, before that, you’ll see, in the sunset, the Sun falling in the Atlantic Ocean, with Cape of Rock in sight too (if the day is unclouded). After the sunset we will enter the forest, a special part of our walk, where you will experience the ambience as our ancestors did when they had cross the mountain, in the dark, on their way back home. You’ll find mostly irregular terrain, but nothing a person without any mobility impairment can not handle.
Coming in from the past, the fluttering of the foliage announces the wind in which the Hawk Light, the Bonelli Eagle, hide; it is from that same foliage that the Bubo Bubo shoots, in long flights, trying to observe, in the night, the glimpse of a running hare or the passage of a careless pigeon.
Amid the sounds of the stream, the fox conceals its steps, the Three-Toed Skink tries to elude snake by hiding its small paws.
But, from the past, in this very Mountain, the wolves, the deer, the wild boars have also roamed these paths. There are also wild shepperds and friars who, due to their peculiar experiences and unexpected encounters, live on in words engraved, words that have outlasted the centuries as the desire to know and protect this recondite forest culture as it is, on the nights and days passing by us, revived in “Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves”. And it’s in this silence that the heart will become the eyes of these past lives, of these feelings of the present.
You will hear of some accounts and memories from the past, to better understand how one lived in the mountains, particularly regarding the religious orders and the unusual stories from a History written centuries ago.
You may, or may not, have the chance, in the night, of observing some traces of the fauna that still exists in Sintra Mountains.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Sintra Railway Station, Av. Dr. Miguel Bombarda, Sintra 2710-590 Portugal
In the end you’ll carry the memory of having entered soft forest at night, full of such from the past. You will be transported back to Sintra’s train station, where you were first picked up.
Duration: 10 minutes
