National Palace of Sintra
Medieval royal palace with twin conical chimneys, Mudejar tile rooms and a king's prison chamber.
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This guide to the National Palace of Sintra stands you in the small chamber where King Afonso the Sixth spent his last years in the sixteen seventies and eighties. It follows a royal family scandal involving a younger brother, a queen from Savoy and a disputed marriage, and a legend worn into some of the oldest floor tiles in the palace. Best heard standing beside the tiled floor itself.
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