Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais
Protected granite mountains and misty forests running west to the Atlantic cliffs and dunes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park in Sintra follows one sixteenth-century friar at the Capuchos convent, a man who had wandered through Italy and then turned down even the cramped cell his brothers slept in. It weighs a chronicle printed long after his death that cannot quite agree with itself, and a legend of a stranger on the path. Best heard under the trees, where the mountain air is cold and damp.
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