Entrance to Pena Palace and Park
Personal live guideExcellent tour but was only available to one person. Also, we wanted to go back to listen to some of the history but was no longer available.
Explore the Pena Palace and Park on your own with this audio-guided tour available on your smartphone, including entrance tickets.
This picture-perfect mountain retreat was a monastery until transformed into a private palace by King Ferdinand II. The surrounding Park of Pena is just as big of a treat, full of exotic plant life and other secret treasures. Discover for yourself the 'Crown of the Sintra region'.
Originally a 16th-century monastery, Ferdinand threw out all notions of restraint and ordered its conversion into a Technicolor fairy-tale fortress. The King couldn't settle on a single style, so the castle is a delightful mishmash of Romantic, Renaissance, Manueline and Moorish styles. A must-see for fans of architecture and design (and bright colors)!
