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The Romantic Village - A World Heritage

Architectural Heritage - Palacio da Pena

Sintra is a top wedding destination, a Portuguese village that is perfect for a picturesque romantic wedding, with exclusive wedding venues, a true fairy tale. With the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west making it possible to bring together a wonderful dream wedding experience, and filled with dream forests, all together led to Sintra being considered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as "Cultural Landscape of Sintra" since 1995. For its architectural heritage with several examples of palaces, mansions, chalets and monasteries in the most romantic setting, Sintra is the perfect choice for your wedding in Portugal.

Quinta da Regaleira

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Its floristic heritage housed in a micro-climate with the Mediterranean and northern floras, hundreds of trees and exotic flowers in gardens, parks and forests, making possible to bring together a outside venue in a vintage style truly unique. Sintra is conveniently located close to both Lisbon and the resort towns of Cascais and Estoril. Lisbon is only 30 minutes away by direct train with the station in the centre of the capital. The journey time to the coast is even shorter and so a wedding by the sea is easy to organize. This short distance means that most visitors can discover and get married in Sintra and than go back to Lisbon or Cascais easily.

Pena Palace

Photo by Peter Curbishley

Pena Palace is an architetural expression of pure romanticism in the Lisbon region, a World Heritage Site surrounded with exclusive wedding venues. The palace's history started in the Middle Ages when a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena was built on the top of the hill above Sintra. According to tradition, the construction occurred after an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Is one of the best expressions of architectural Romanticism of the nineteenth century in the world, the walls are decoratively carved and painted in vivid colors, becoming the first palace in this style in Europe, erected about 30 years before the charismatic Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.

Vintage Style - Sintra Village

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If you want a romantic wedding in a vintage style venue The Quinta is a unique place that exuberates the spirit of Sintra, where you can have a dream wedding surrounde by your loved ones. To visit Sintra and feel its revival spirit, there are historical and cultural landmarks such as: Moorish Castle, Park and Sintra National Palace, Park and Palace of Monserrate, Quinta da Regaleira and Museum of Toys, with a historical load portrayed over the centuries by famous artists and poets, in words and paintings describing and praising the the indescribable beauty of Sintra, and so a wise reason for getting married in Portugal.

Moorish Castle

Natural Landscape - Cabo da Roca

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Sintra a unique wedding destination, with a romantic atmosphere and invaluable to mankind because of its findings of traces of mankind history with exclusive wedding venues. A beautiful place only to be described with your own eyes by taking a walk in the natural parks and breathing the pure air, or trough the mansions or palaces were you can get married in dream wedding venue in a unique vintage style venue. And when visiting the surrounding you should go to Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of Portugal.

Gastronomy

Sintra as a wedding destination has exclusive wedding venues wich are supplemented with refined gastronomy, varied and rich. Of the meat dishes, highlights include Negrais suckling pig (leito de Negrais), Mercs pork (carne de porco s Mercs) and roasted lamb and veal. The coastline along the region of Sintra has abundance of white fish, seafood and shellfish. As for the wine, Colares wine is a must try, particularly the famous Ramisco variety which is one of the top wines on the Portuguese wine list. As far as sweets are concerned we must inevitably highlight the queijadas de Sintra (Sintra tartlets), an ancient sweet which dates back to, at least, the Middle Ages. But there are others that should be tasted: travesseiros', pastis da Pena, nozes de Galamares, Fofos de Belas in addition to jam produced according to traditional preparation methods.

Sintra Yellow Tram

Photo by Alain Gavillet