{"id":59041,"date":"2026-10-13T19:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59041"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:53:56","slug":"palacio-nacional-de-sintra","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/sv\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/palacio-nacional-de-sintra\/","title":{"rendered":"Pal\u00e1cio Nacional de Sintra"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pal\u00e1cio Nacional de Sintra stands in the centre of the old town, its two great conical chimneys rising over the houses like the emblem of the village. A royal palace for more than six centuries, it is one of the best-preserved medieval palaces of Portugal, where the rooms lived in by kings and queens still keep their tiles, their frescoes and their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The palace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The palace grew from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, as the kings of Portugal added to the rooms around the first medieval halls. Its great halls \u2014 the Sala dos Cisnes, with its swans, and the Sala das Pegas, with its magpies \u2014 are among the masterpieces of the palace, and the coat-of-arms hall of King Manuel I, with its vault of deer, impresses with its scale. The kitchen, under the huge chimneys, served the court feast days of the palace until the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n