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Lisbon District

Sintra

Sintra is a town in , , . Its spectacular setting, 28 km from , houses a Royal Palace, used by generations of Portuguese royalty prior to the 1910 revolution.
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  • Type: Town with 26,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Lisbon District, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Cintra” and “Sintra Municipality”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pena Castle and Quinta da Regaleira.

Photo: Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the . The castle stands on the top of a hill in the above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from and much of its .

Garden
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is a quinta located near the historic centre of Sintra, Portugal. It is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the "Cultural Landscape of Sintra".

Railway station
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Sintra Station is a railway station in the town Sintra and the terminus of the Sintra Line from , one of the main stations in . It is managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Algueirão and Mem Martins.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km east of Sintra.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4 km east of Sintra.

Hamlet
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is an affluent village in the municipality of Sintra, on the , known for its resorts, restaurants, and its two prominent gated communities, Quinta da Penha Longa and Quinta da Beloura.

Sintra

Latitude
38.7985° or 38° 47′ 55″ north
Longitude
-9.3881° or 9° 23′ 17″ west
Population
26,200
Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT STA
Open location code
8CCGQJX6+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25611733
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2262912
Wiki­data ID
Q190187
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Sintra” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintra”
  • Albanian: “Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintras”
  • Albanian: “Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintrit”
  • Albanian: “Sintra”
  • Arabic: “سينترا”
  • Arabic: “شنترة”
  • Aragonese: “Sintra”
  • Armenian: “Սինտրա”
  • Asturian: “Sintra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sintra”
  • Balinese: “Sintra”
  • Basque: “Sintra”
  • Belarusian: “Сінтра”
  • Belarusian: “Сынтра”
  • Breton: “Sintra”
  • Bulgarian: “Синтра”
  • Catalan: “Sintra”
  • Cebuano: “Sintra (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Sintra”
  • Chechen: “Синтра”
  • Chinese: “Sintra”
  • Chinese: “辛特拉”
  • Croatian: “Sintra”
  • Czech: “Sintra”
  • Danish: “Sintra”
  • Dutch: “Sintra”
  • Esperanto: “Sintra”
  • Finnish: “Sintra”
  • French: “Sintra”
  • Galician: “Sintra”
  • Georgian: “სინტრა”
  • German: “Sintra”
  • Greek: “Σίντρα”
  • Hebrew: “סינטרה”
  • Hindi: “सिंट्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Sintra”
  • Ido: “Sintra”
  • Indonesian: “Sintra”
  • Irish: “Sintra”
  • Italian: “Paesaggio culturale di Sintra”
  • Italian: “Sintra”
  • Japanese: “シントラ”
  • Japanese: “シントラの文化的景観”
  • Korean: “신트라”
  • Latvian: “Sintra”
  • Lithuanian: “Sintra”
  • Lombard: “Sintra”
  • Malay: “Sintra”
  • Malayalam: “സിൻട്ര”
  • Maltese: “Sintra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sintra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sintra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sintra”
  • Norwegian: “Sintra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sintra”
  • Ossetian: “Синтрæ”
  • Persian: “سینترا”
  • Polish: “Sintra”
  • Portuguese: “Concelho de Sintra”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Sintra”
  • Portuguese: “Sintra”
  • Romanian: “Sintra”
  • Russian: “Белоура-Синтра”
  • Russian: “Синтра”
  • Scots: “Sintra”
  • Serbian: “Sintra”
  • Serbian: “Синтра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sintra”
  • Slovak: “Sintra”
  • Slovenian: “Sintra”
  • Spanish: “Sintra”
  • Swedish: “Sintra”
  • Tatar: “Синтра”
  • Thai: “ซิงตรา”
  • Turkish: “Sintra”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінтра”
  • Vietnamese: “Cảnh quan văn hóa Sintra”
  • Vietnamese: “Sintra”
  • Volapük: “Sintra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sintra”
  • Welsh: “Sintra”
  • “Sintra”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sintra”. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.