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Sintra Fully Guided Tour: First Ticket Pena Palace & Optional Quinta de Regaleira

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Duration

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Overview

    Bypass the crowds and step inside Pena Palace - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - as it opens its doors to the public with this specially-timed early entrance tour. Picking your small group up in central Lisbon, your guide will accompany you to Sintra where a Tuk Tuk will bring you straight to Pena Palace - with no waiting in notoriously long lines - for your fully guided tour of its interior, terraces and gardens. Following your comprehensive tour you’ll have ample time to explore Sintra Village yourself with open-ended return train tickets, or have the option to upgrade to include a complete tour of the fairytale-like Quinta da Regaleira.

What's Included

  • Skip-the-line Quinta da Regaleira tickets (if option chosen)
  • Pena Palace interior entrance tickets (if Pena tour chosen)
  • Fully guided Pena Palace interior plus terrace and gardens tour (if Pena option chosen)
  • Transfer from train station to Pena Palace (from January 2021)
  • Fully guided tour of Quinta da Regaleira Gardens (if option chosen)
  • Single dedicated guide for duration of tour
  • Tuk Tuk transfer through Sintra-Cascais Natural Park
  • Open-ended return train ticket (From 1 January 2021)

What to Expect

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    Pass By: Sintra National Palace, Largo Rainha Dona Amelia, Sintra 2710-616 Portugal

    View from the outside

    Pass By: Park and National Palace of Pena, Estrada da Pena, Sintra 2710-609 Portugal

    If you choose the Pena tour, following on the footsteps of your local guide, you’ll head straight inside the Palace and explore it’s wealth of secrets. Intended as a simple summer retreat gifted by the King Consort Ferdinand II for Queen Maria II, the Palace soon became the crown jewel of Sintra, resplendent with ornate furnishings, intricate stone carvings, crenelations and cloisters. Once you get a taste of the dynamic landscape and picturesque views, you’ll be swept up in the engrossing history of the structure, which appears to be transposed straight out of a fairytale.


    Pass By: Estrada da Pena 9, 2710-609 Sintra, Portugal

    If you choose the Pena Tour- Once you learn all about the Portuguese royalty who once called this palace home, you’ll step out to the terraces to be greeted by breathtaking views overlooking the hilltops and Sintra town. Then, it’s time to lose yourself in the Palace’s overgrowth of gardens. Making your way across stepping stones, garden walls, and underground tunnels, you’ll see why this is a favourite of artists including fairytale writer Hans Christen Andersen and Romantic poet Lord Byron.


    Pass By: Sintra, Sintra, Sintra Municipality, Lisbon District, Central Portugal

    Sintra


    Pass By: Quinta da Regaleira, Rua Barbosa do Bocage, Sintra 2710-567 Portugal

    If option chosen, enjoy a complete tour of the Quinta da Regaleira, another one of Sintra’s spellbinding sites. In addition to a guided tour of the palace, you’ll explore the famous Initiation Well - well-known to have a connection with the mysterious Freemasons - as well as its complex network of labyrinthine caves and waterfalls.


    Pass By: Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Portugal

    Sintra Cascais Natural Park

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