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Cultural Centers in Sintra
Museu do Ar
- heritage
Granja do Marquês
2715-021, Pêro Pinheiro
The air Museum is a space dedicated to aviation, constituting an important historical legacy. The permanent exhibition integrates aircraft, engines, propellers, flight and navigation equipment, instrument panels, simulators, uniforms, trophies and several aeronautical pioneer Portuguese aviation objects. The Museum also presents the collections of TAP and ANA, with a total of 25 aircraft and simulators complemented with photographic elements and showcases with objects that help to understand the evolution of Portuguese and international aviation.
Museu da Vinha e do Vinho de Colares
- heritage
Rua da Casarita, 1
2705-017, Colares
Installed in the cellar Widow Gomes, in Almoçageme, this museum was created to preserve the techniques of planting vines in sandy soil, a characteristic of the Colares wine, as well as the traditions combined with the beverage production, including the use of caste "Ramisco". It should be noted that the demarcated region of Colares has existed since 1908, although the tradition wine area reassemble the 1225, when King Afonso III made the donation of Reguengo of Necklaces, forcing plant vines there from France.
Museu de História Natural de Sintra
- heritage
Rua do Paço, 20
2710-602, Sintra
Operating since 2009, this museum consists of several collections: paleontology (fossils 9200), mineralogy (mineral 900), malacology (1347 shells) and petrography (544 samples of rocks). Inside the room there is also a small specialized library.
Casa-Museu de Leal da Câmara
- heritage
Calçada da Rinchoa, 67
2635-312, Sintra
The House-Museum of Leal da Câmara is installed in residences where Master Leal da Câmara lived from 1930 until his death in 1948. The building that once belonged to Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal, worked as a field Hospital of the Portuguese troops during the French invasions, in the 19th century. In 1965 was incorporated in the Municipal Chamber of Sintra, upon the death of the donor and the master's widow. Since 2003 the House functions as a space where we display the hooptie collections of the artist (painting, drawing, caricature, furniture, textiles, ceramics, photo and …
Casa da Juventude de Sintra
- art
Rua Padre Alberto Neto, Tapada das Mercês
2725-531, Sintra
The Casa da Juventude de Sintra has a technical/thematic documentation centre, a computer/internet centre, a video- sound room, a meeting space, the PIJ - the IPJ's Juvenile Information Room and the UNIVA - a unit to help people be a part of active life.
Cinema City Beloura Shopping
- leisure
EN 9 - Quinta da Beloura
2710, Sintra
A cinema with several rooms, located at the Beloura Shopping.
Museu Renato Lobo Garcia
- heritage
Avenida Doutor Brandão de Vasconcelos, 82
2705-018, Almoçageme
This museum features documents, photographs and objects related to the history of this centennary Firemen's Headquarters. It has a manual 19th century FCAUD pump, that used to belong to the ABV Lisbon and was the famed "Noblemen's Pump", used for the transportation of the sick and a 1948 Mordis ambulance.