Portugal. Cultural Landscape of Sintra

Date of Inscription: 1995
Criteria: (ii)(iv)(v)
Property : 946.0000 ha
Buffer zone: 3641.0000 ha
Sintra/Serra
N38 46 59.988 W9 25 0.012
Ref: 723  

 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.

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With many thanks to Nela from Portugal!