Sintra, Glorious Eden

The Royal Palace

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Sky Watch Friday

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Sky Watch Friday

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Almost night

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Night time.

Morning sun

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Sky Watch Friday

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Nice weather !

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It has rained quite a lot. Where is spring?

Again today

2009-11-25T11:21:00.002Z

Sintra is a wonderful place to the people who like fog and rain.
Yes, it's raining again today.

For Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer.

Not today

2009-11-24T09:40:00.003Z

It has rained quite a lot here. By what the metereologists showed in television, it was the same rain that went to England. We could aee that big swirl of clouds going around up to England and down again. Ours was not so strong and didn't cause floods because it was only the outskirts of the storm.
But not today or yesterday. We are having some truce so the fields can drain all that water.

A storm brewing

2009-11-20T09:57:00.002Z

Sintra by night.

For Sky Watch Friday.

A wet day

2009-11-18T10:49:00.005Z

For a little moment, the rain stopped. But even so, everything was so wet, including the window.

For Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer.

Storm

2009-11-17T10:43:00.003Z

Yesterday it rained so much, looked like all the sky and earth was going down.

I took this picture when I was taking one of my girls to school. Before I would take another one from school to take her home, I had to stop the car because it was tons of water falling down and we couldn't see a thing.

The day before it rained strongly too and we we expecting more for today but what happened was we woke up to a golden autumnal sun.

I like soooo much the rain but I was pleased with the sun because I was afraid of the result of that amount of water pouring down.

Let's see what tomoeow will bring to us.

Flowers of the Ramalhão

2009-11-16T09:26:00.003Z

Some branches are already empty of leaves and, at the same time, we still have flowers.
Taken at the garden of Quinta do Ramalhão, a convent school belonging to the Dominican Order, where my older daughters studied and my little one still is.

For Today's Flowers.

The end of the day

2009-11-13T09:35:00.002Z

Heavy sky. Looks like it will rain. That's ok, it's time to rain.

For Sky Watch Friday.

Outdoor Wednesday

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Walking in Monserrate.

For Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer.

Blue Monday

2009-11-09T10:16:00.001Z

Blue fog in Sintra.
For Blue Monday at Smiling Sally.

Jungle

2009-11-07T09:44:00.001Z

The garden of Monserrate.

Falling down

2009-11-06T10:09:00.001Z

Is the sky of Sintra falling down?

For Sky Watch Friday.

Autumn in Sintra

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Turning colour leaves in Sintra mild Autumn.

Today's Flowers

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Taken in Monserrate garden.
For Today's Flowers.

Monserrate

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Monserrate is beautiful even with no sun.

Autumn sky

2009-10-30T09:07:00.000Z

For Sky Watch Friday.

Houses of Sintra

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In a gray and rainy day.

Hydrangeas

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In Monserrate garden.

Monserrate

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We can see signs of the Autumn on the floor.

Quinta da Capela

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Near Monserrate.

Trees of Monserrate

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On the lawn, viewed from the Palace.

Morning sun

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Monserrate garden, in the morning.

Monserrate

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Another beautiful view.

Sky of Sintra

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For Sky Watch Friday.

Trees of Monserrate

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In the morning, viewed from the Palace of Monserrate, near the fountain.

Sintra

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Viewed from Monserrate, near the Palace, in the morning.

Palace of Monserrate

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In the morning light.

Monserrate

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The Palace between the trees.

Palace of Monserrate

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In the morning sun.

Blue Day

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At 7 am.
For Sky Watch Friday.

Rain at Monserrate

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In Quinta de Monserrate.

Garden of Monserrate

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Taken on a rainy day.
Even so, the garden had a lot of visitors.
Sometimes, the rain was so strong that we had to take shelter.

It's raining softly

2009-09-29T19:26:00.001+01:00

Thanks be to God.

Still hot

2009-09-28T10:51:00.000+01:00

Is Autumn but it's still hot. I don't like it.

On a foggy day

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The "Serra" (mountain) of Sintra, viewed from the street that goes from Ramalhão to Cascais.

Rain in the making

2009-09-24T09:23:00.000+01:00

I hope it rains.

Through the window

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Looking to a rainy day through the window.

PS: Not today. Inspite of being already Autumn - wonderful word! - is too hot and not a cloud in the horizon. That's not fair!

To Heaven

2009-09-22T10:30:00.000+01:00

In the garden of the park of Palácio Valenças.

Early morning

2009-09-21T09:32:00.002+01:00

A lot of people rise very early, in Sintra, to go to work and to school.

The ladder of Jacob

2009-09-18T09:52:00.007+01:00

Don't the clouds in the bottom look like angel's wings and the ones in the middle look like steps?

And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.
Genesis, 28: 12

Trees of Sintra

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Sintra is full of trees everywhere.

Pink and green

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The trees of the Park viewed from the balcony of Palácio Valenças.

Old roofs

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Even old they are quite nice.

Night time

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Sintra is so beautiful in the nighy as it is in the day.

PS: In this moment, 8.55 AM, it's raining in Sintra which for me is always an happy thing. What is funny is accuweather saying that we have clouds and sun and doesn't say anything about rain!
Some days ago we had an apocalyptic thunder and tropical rain and accuweather was saying that we were having sun!

As long as the eyes can reach

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Taken from Quinta do Relógio.

Stars of St. Joseph

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Now all over Sintra.

Rain and thunder

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On a day of rain and thunder.

The fog

2009-09-08T10:21:00.001+01:00

Sintra is a place where we have fog quite often. Not today. It's still hot.
I long for Autumn and cooler days.

Cinderela palace

2009-09-04T09:01:00.004+01:00

The "Casa dos Penedos" or the Penedos's House, was designed by the architect Raul Lino and built in 1922.
A penedo is a big rock.
So beautiful and in the middle of all that greenery, we could imagine that Cinderela palace was a bit like that.

A day in the mist

2009-09-03T09:33:00.002+01:00

Sintra is a place where there is fog quite often. This, added to the romantic architecture, gives to the place a special mistic - and misty - look.

Waiting for Autumn

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Big cloud

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A big cloud I saw in the sky of Sintra some time ago. It was the sunset.
Theme Day for September at City Daily Picture: Big.

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Dreaming with rain

2009-08-31T09:34:00.002+01:00

It has been too hot, so I'm dreaming with a bit of rain and cool weather.

By the "Volta do Duche"

2009-08-29T12:33:00.001+01:00

...to the historic center and the Royal Palace.

The Penha Longa in the distance

2009-08-28T08:29:00.009+01:00

The roofs on the left belong to a convent school near my house. Belong to the Dorotheans Sisters (Saint Dorothea).

A big rock between the two araucarias - at the right side of the roof - is the Penha Longa (more or less translated by Big Rock) and belongs to a Quinta that has an hotel.

There, in XIV century, was built a convent: the Convent of Penha Longa.

Now is a golf resort.

Look at that sky, isn't that wonderful?

For Sky Watch Friday.

Nice shade

2009-08-27T09:32:00.001+01:00

...in a hot day.
Garden of Quinta do Relógio, the one on the right side on the way to Seteais and Monserrate.

Some clouds

2009-08-26T16:35:00.004+01:00

This picture was not taken today but it could have been: today the day is like that, a bit hot and the sky has some clouds.

This is the "serra" of Sintra, a kind of mountain, not very hight but very long. Here we see only a bit of it, it's like a long and sleeping dragon.

Old house

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An old and beautiful house in Sintra.

To the historic center

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By the "Volta do Duche", the way to the historic center.

The Royal Palace

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The Royal Palace view from the Palácio Valenças.

Quinta do Relógio

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Would you like to have a seat?
This is a corner of the Quinta do Relógio, on the right side of the street that takes us to Monserrate and Seteais.

The Park

2009-08-20T08:54:00.004+01:00

A park in town in a sunny day.
It's called Parque da Liberdade, "Freedom Park", which is rather silly. It belongs to the Palácio Valenças, the Valenças Palace.
This is a corner down in the park, near the street. It's quite big and has, above its top, another street, so one can go inside the park in three places and chooses to walk down or up.

The Town Hall

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Town Hall and other houses.

The National Palace

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The National Palace with the characteristic chemneys.
You can also read about it here.

The fog is quite common in Sintra which gives a certain air of magic to the place.

Like a fairytale

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