Molly spotted an interesting picture of a beautiful gothic building in a magazine in the hotel, so we googled it and found it was located very close to our hotel. And voila we headed to Quinta da Regaleira, another diamond in Sintra’s treasure chest.
The palace is only 100 years old and there were lucky people living there just 30 years ago! It was built by the millionaire
António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro who would be my uncle if life was fair.
The property consists of a romantic palace and chapel, a luxurious park with lakes, grottoes, beautiful trees, benches and fountains. А keen photographer could spend days and nights taking pictures of this place. I obviously went and forgot my camera in the hotel. As the English say, I could forget my head if it wasn’t screwed on. VIVA smart phones!
My top favourite spot in the whole palace, a dream for a secret garden with mystical tree and stone benches —–>
Look at this tower through the curved branches of the tree and the flowers of the exotic magnolia. It look like the castle where the sleeping beauty slept her hundred-year sleep. —>
*Traveller tip: Quinta da Regaleira opens at 10am (pretty much like everything in Portugal), there are large groups of tourists which form a long queue very quickly, so worth going half an hour before the opening times.
Molly was extremely busy organising the delivery of 3 bottles of washing up liquid for her job back home she lost interest in photographing me, so here is a selfie. —>
Oooops, I meant to post this —->
If you have a romantic soul you will love this magical place.
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