Fantastic Architecture of Pena Palace Portugal
Last spring I was in that incredible place.
Pena National Palace
The fantastic Palácio da Pena is one of the best examples of 19th-century Romantic revivalism in Portugal.
Situated at the top of the Monte da Pena, the palace was built on the site of an old monastery belonging to the Order of St. Jerome. It was the fruit of the imagination of Dom Fernando of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, who married the queen Dona Maria II in 1836. After falling in love with Sintra, he decided to buy the convent and the surrounding land to build a summer palace for the royal family.
The king consort adopted Portuguese architectural and decorative forms for the palace, which he built according to the revivalist taste (neo-Gothic, neo-Manueline, neo-Islamic, neo-Renaissance), and, in the surrounding area, he decided to make a magnificent woodland park in the English style, with a wide variety of exotic tree species.
The interior of the palace is still decorated according to the tastes of the kings and queens who lived there, and its great highlight is the chapel, where it is still possible to see a magnificent alabaster altarpiece attributed to Nicolau Chanterenne (one of the architects of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, in Lisbon).
A restaurant has now been installed in one of the wings of the palace, with a terrace that offers a beautiful panoramic view over the Serra de Sintra and the coast.
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I love the yellow color scheme, Very nice
Those photos you took are STELLAR! What incredible color. I can only imagine how stunning to walk the steps of each building, especially the mustard yellow one. 😍
100% :D
Вав, очень красивое место. Оно великолепное.
О да!
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wow a beautiful, classic architecture, apparently well preserved, I would like to see how is its decoration, through the decoration of sure you know the tastes of the queens and kings that inhabited it
Яка краса, фантастичні кольори 😍😍
Схоже тут не тільки приголомшлива архітектура, а й незрівнянні краєвиди навколо!