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Sintra
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In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other fine dwellings, built along the same lines in the surrounding serra, created a unique combination of parks and gardens which influenced the development of landscape architecture throughout Europe. [unesco]
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sight PALÁCIO NACIONAL DA PENA
1850, the palace after the plans of Wilhelm von Eschwege. This was mandated to a convent from the 16th Century and otherwise involved as many styles to mix. With courage let this little art-historical...
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