Câmara Municipal de Sintra (sede)
Neo-Manueline town hall with a tiled pyramidal spire, carved balcony and two-storey cloister.
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This guide to the Câmara Municipal de Sintra, the town hall of Sintra, starts at the tip of its tiled tower and asks why a small council dressed its office like a monument to the age of sea voyages. It follows the money through the arrival of the railway, the rise of the new Estefânia district, and the council's decision in the early nineteen hundreds to move. Along the way you'll meet a vanished chapel to Saint Sebastian. Stand across the square where you can see the whole tower.
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