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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Pena Palace
Photo: Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera.
Sintra National Palace
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The Palace of Sintra, also called Town Palace, is located in the town of Sintra, in the Lisbon District of Portugal.
Quinta da Regaleira
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quinta da Regaleira is a quinta located near the historic centre of Sintra, Portugal.
Localities in the Area
Algueirão–Mem Martins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Algueirão – Mem Martins is a Portuguese civil parish, in the municipality of Sintra. Algueirão–Mem Martins is situated 4 km east of Sintra.
Sintra
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7985° or 38° 47' 55" northLongitude
-9.3881° or 9° 23' 17" westPopulation
26,200Elevation
197 metres (646 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT STAOpen Location Code
8CCGQJX6+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 25611733OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2262912Wikidata ID
Q190187Sintra Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintra
- Albanian: Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintras
- Albanian: Peizazhi Kulturor i Sintrit
- Albanian: Sintra
- Arabic: Sintra
- Arabic: سينترا
- Arabic: شنترة
- Aragonese: Sintra
- Armenian: Սինտրա
- Asturian: Sintra
- Azerbaijani: Sintra
- Basque: Sintra
- Belarusian: Сынтра
- Belarusian: Сінтра
- 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
- English: Cintra
- English: Sintra Municipality
- 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
- Malay: Sintra
- Malayalam: സിൻട്ര
- Maltese: Sintra
- Min Nan Chinese: Sintra
- Norwegian: Sintra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sintra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Spanish: Sintra
- Swedish: Sintra
- Tatar: Синтра
- Thai: ซิงตรา
- Turkish: Sintra
- Ukrainian: Сінтра
- Vietnamese: Cảnh quan văn hóa Sintra
- Vietnamese: Sintra
- Volapük: Sintra
- Waray (Philippines): Sintra
- Welsh: Sintra
Other Places Named Sintra
In the Area
- Quinta das RosasLocality
- Quinta dos PlátanosLocality
- Quanta Das PalmeirasLocality
- Qvinta das TiliasLocality
- Cerrado dos PinheirosLocality
- Quinta da PalmelaLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Sintra. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.