Cultural Landscape of Sintra World Heritage Site

Official name

Cultural Landscape of Sintra | UNESCO

Country

Portugal | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Sintra/Serra
38.7833° Lat, -9.4166° Lon | Map

Code

723

Time Zone

Europe/Lisbon (WET, +0000)

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Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1995. In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other fine dwellings, built along the same lines in the surrounding serra , created a unique combination of parks and gardens which influenced the development of landscape architecture throughout Europe.