Park and Palace of Monserrate
Romantic hilltop palace of Gothic, Indian and Moorish styles set in exotic botanical gardens.
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This guide to the Park and Palace of Monserrate in Sintra follows Lord Byron up the hill in the early eighteen hundreds, to an estate that a fabulously rich English novelist had rented, reshaped and then walked away from. It weighs a few famous lines of poetry against what they might have been hinting at, and meets the textile millionaire who came decades later. Best heard on the lawn facing the palace.
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