 Capela da Quinta da Regaleira - Reviews from across the web
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Quinta da Regaleira - Sintra - Reviews of Quinta da Regaleira - TripAdvisor
We didn't know anything about this site and did not get information on it while visiting. No tourist information in English!! It was fascinating non the less and the highlight of our trip....
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Quinta da Regaleira- Sintra, Portugal - VirtualTourist.com
Quinta da Regaleira origins date back to 1697 when José Leite purchased a huge tract of land at one end of the Old Quarter of Sintra. The property was bought at a public auction in 1715 by Francisco Alberto Guimarães de Castro who diverted water from the mountain to supply a fountain on the property...
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Quinta da Regaleira- Sintra, Portugal - VirtualTourist.com
This is what is known as a Folly: an architectural and botanical pastiche. The Quinta is a somewhat gloomy estate sprinkled with chapels, caves, wells, and statues, all on a steep hill. It is very Victorian, and a bit pointless: although it was built with care and resources, it still belong to the L...
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quinta da regaleira @ portugal Photo Gallery by Luís Pereira at pbase.com
This is a fabulous assemblage of styles and constructions ( gardens, wells, towers, statues, mysterious grottoes, etc.), which Manini succeeded in imbuing with exceptional characteristics. Albeit having a semblance of a scene from opera, the Quinta da Regaleira has alchemical and sacred connotations...
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Quinta da Regaleira - Sintra Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
The Quinta da Regaleira (or Regaleira) is located near the centre of Sintra and it's formed by a Palace, a Chapel and gardens with grottos, wells and subterranean areas, built from the end of the 19th century to the eve of the republican revolution in 1910, by a very rich Portuguese man of Brazilian...
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Portugal - Sintra - Quinta da Regaleira
There is also a vast ensemble of turrets providing us with breathtaking views, strange recesses - half myth half saudade (missing), palace type residences of superb taste. Reference must be made to the adventures of the Knights of the Temple or the ideals of the master Masons, to descend into the in...
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