Pena Park
Romantic hillside forest of exotic trees, fern valleys, lakes and hidden follies around a palace.
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This guide to Parque da Pena in Sintra follows King Ferdinand II, the German-born prince who bought a ruined monastery on a bare, windswept summit in 1838, and the forest he set out to conjure around it. You will meet a mining engineer turned landscaper, a queen whose name lives on in a fern valley, and an opera singer who became a countess. Best heard on the shaded paths below the palace, among the tree ferns.
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