This May 2013 photo shows tiled walls and arched doorways inside the Monserrate Palace in Sintra, Portugal. The palace is one of a number of castles and other spectacular buildings found in Sintra ...

Pena National Palace, outside Lisbon in Sintra, Portugal, is about as real as fairy-tale castles get. Shutterstock 2020-01-02T15:09:00Z ...

Pena Palace is the 19th century fantasy of its wealthy owners. The turrets weren’t built as lookout posts for guards, they were a decorative addition in peaceful times.

A simple cross marks the entrance to the Capuchos Convent, a monastery in Sintra. Pena Palace in the distance with the steps of the Moorish Castle in the foreground in Sintra, Portugal. Sintra ...