Sintra
Sintra is a town in Greater Lisbon, Estremadura, Portugal. Its spectacular setting, 28 km from Lisbon, houses a Royal Palace, used by generations of Portuguese royalty prior to the 1910 revolution.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pena Castle and Quinta da Regaleira.
Pena Castle
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.
Quinta da Regaleira
Garden
Sintra railway station
Railway station
Sintra Station is a railway station in the town Sintra and the terminus of the Sintra Line from Rossio, one of the main stations in Lisbon. It is managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Algueirão and Mem Martins.
Linhó
Hamlet
Linhó is an affluent village in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera, known for its resorts, restaurants, and its two prominent gated communities, Quinta da Penha Longa and Quinta da Beloura.
Sintra
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Novial: “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”
- Urdu: “سنٹرا”
- Vietnamese: “Cảnh quan văn hóa Sintra”
- Vietnamese: “Sintra”
- Volapük: “Sintra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sintra”
- Welsh: “Sintra”
- “Sintra”
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