Sintra

Sintra (in the past Curved) is a city portuguaise located at 15 km in the North-West of Lisbon in the District of Lisbon (area of Lisbon and under-area of Large Lisbon). The perfect harmony between the nature and the inheritance of the city led UNESCO to classify the city with the Inheritance of Humanity, in the category “Landscape cultural”, in 1995. Populacion of the town of Sintra: 27.000

History

  • Antiquity
As of, the city would have been inhabited by romanized populations; it then formed part of the territory of the Roman city of Olisipo, future Lisbon.

  • Moslem Period (713-1147)

The town of Sintra appears in geographical texts (Al-Bakri, S.), like dependence of Lisbon and the main thing urban center after this one.

  • the Reconquest

At the beginning of the 11th century, the Christians undertake the reconquest of the area: in 1147, the king Alphonse Ier of Portugal (first king of Portugal) made reinstate the city in the Christian bosom; this stage marks the beginning of the construction of convents and monasteries in Tightened.

  • 15th century

As from the 15th century, the palate becoming one of the principal vacation resorts of the court, the city grows rich by many villas set up by the aristocracy lisboète.

  • 19th century

In 1808, it is in Sintra that convention is signed to restore peace after the invasion of Portugal by the French Army.

The city becomes one of the high places of romantic architecture: the English poet Lord Byron accomplishes many stays there; prince Ferdinand of Saxony Cobourg-Gotha of Bavaria buys the ruins of the old monastery of Notre-Dame of Péna built in 1503 and undertakes the construction of the palate of Pena: this one is characterized by a mixture of styles (Gothic, Moor, Renaissance and manuélin); he arranges, moreover, a gathering park, beside the local gasolines, of many exotic gasolines. The framework of the city takes part largely in the passion of all Europe for this city.

Demography

Geography

Sintra is located in the province of the Estrémadure, with the foot and on the northern slope of Serra of Sintra, a narrow green chain at the granitic tops which lengthens between Lisbon and the coast of the Atlantic.

The exceptional climate of this area supports the presence of a dense and rich vegetation in cash in the middle of a national park classified by UNESCO. Rightly, Byron had called it the “Glorious Eden”.

Economy

Culture

Inheritance

The city is surrounded by Retiros, luxurious properties where retirement was made, and of Quintas, houses halfway between the farm and the small palace, where the aristocracy lisboète came to seek freshness in summer.

Bonds

List freguesias (parishes) of Sintra

  • Agualva
  • Algueirão - Mem Martins
  • Almargem C Bispo
  • Belas
  • Cacém
  • Casal de Cambra
  • Colares
  • Massamá
  • Reflected-Sintra
  • Monte Abraão
  • Montelavar
  • Pêro Pinheiro
  • Queluz
  • Rio de Mouro
  • Santa Maria and São Miguel
  • São João das Lampas
  • São Marcos
  • São Martinho
  • São Pedro de Penaferrim
  • Terrugem

Photographs

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