Sintra National Palace, also known as Town Palace is an impressive example for the palaces and the only preserved Royal Palace in Portugal from the Middle Age. Its plant is complex and irregular and it is the result from several construction campaigns and periods in which the main ones were during Dom João I and Dom Manuel time and also the third of the 16th century. This Town Palace is the most ambitious project under the Mudéjar style in Portugal. It was quite used by the mediaeval Kings and it possesses several divisions, among which the Archers Room, the Guests …
The palace is built between 1770/1790, being the residence of Jacinto Fernandes Bandeira, the first Porto Covo baron. The building is later bought by the British State and became the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Lisbon. The palace is organized in U, integrating the chapel as a semi-autonomous entity. At the garden may be seen a tank with a small cascade and a small swimming-pool built for the workers for the company that presently runs here.
Luxury palace built at the beginning of the 19th century, in French style, with a large and romantic garden. Inside, the richly furnished rooms and paintings by António Ramalho are highlighted, as well as interpretations of classic canvases from the Louvre Museum's collections by painter Dordio Gomes.
This is yet another monumental palaces whose construction represents the time of splendor of the families who, in the second half of the 19th century, enriched thanks to the production of wine in its greater apogee. In this case, the Alvarez family came from Spain to take refuge in Portugal for political issues and José Maria Alvarez was Minister of industry of the Government of the first Republic.
