Sintra, Portugal (03)

A very shiny card showing Sintra...well, it is shiny and happy to me...just transmits some positive energy :)

You know, when i look at the castle from this aspect, for some reason it reminds me of the Sleeping Beauty.
I dont know, from where it is situated and how the windows seem small and closed and is time had stood still and they hide some story behind their walls....plus, its overall appearance, does seem like one from a fairytale..
This is my third Sintra card, and this one definitely made me decide that one day i would love to visit this place...just, who was the one who said it was drafty? Gaby? :)

Sintra, Portugal

A tag card by a Portuguese, which was supposed to be entirely written in Macedonian...as i had written one i Ducth, which i must say was a hilarious experience :P
But, I know Macedonian is way more complicated due to its different alphabet in the first place....which reminds me I owe Ksenia some messages about this :S


well, this is my second card from Sintra actually...with the difference that last time it was single view, now its multiview...so here you can see some more things from the place itself.

Now apart from the Pena Palace, about which we talked last time, there are some other tourist attractions worth visiting in Sintra like Castelo dos Mouros, with a breath-taking view of the Sintra Cascais Natural Park and the summer residence of the kings of Portugal, Palacio Nacional de Sintra. The Sintra Mountain range is one of the largest parks in the Lisbon area

Sintra, Portugal

An official from Portugal...first official from there

PT-48661

Sintra is both a town and municipality, located in the district of Lisbon. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture.

The card shows the Pena National Palace from the 19th century.
The Palace of Pena is entered through an impressive stretch of gardens with lakes and follies; a great place for a picnic or a stroll. At the top of the Park is fabulous Palace of Pena, a Disney-esque Palace within its pink, yellow, grey and red silhouette and with monsters guarding doorways. Built in 1840s by German architect Baron Eschwege to the specifications of Dom Fernidand of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha, this fabulous Palace served as a love nest for him and his wife Queen Maria II.
The interior of Palace is no less surprising. The rooms are full of imaginative ornate and in some cases suffocatingly detailed.
The terraces of Pena Palace have a spectacular view over Atlantic and Lisbon

Sintra's charms have long been celebrated. One of the people who did that is Lord Byron, in his "A Glorious Eden".
In the top right corner, there is a small verse added from the writing.
The verse here says: "...Lo! Cintra's Glorious Eden intervenes in variegated maze of mount and glen..."

The bird you can see, is actually glued to the card, which i found both odd and interesting....I wouldnt have thought of doing something like this, but it does fit in with the picture, and looks natural and not as if the sweet bird is an intruder :) It says it's a Greenfinch, a bird widespread throughout Europe, North Africa and South West Asia.