Fonte da Sabuga
Baroque public fountain crowned by a sun-disk gable, fed by a spring prized since medieval times.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Fonte da Sabuga in Sintra starts with a crusader priest writing up the siege of Lisbon in eleven forty-seven, and the small aside he made about a spring in the hills. It follows the water's reputation through the centuries, from an eighteenth-century catalogue of Portuguese springs to a visiting queen and the town council that put its name in stone. Stand facing the spouts, where the inscription and the gable are in plain view.
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