Bakery
Queijadas da Sapa
Historic pastry bakery making crisp-shelled cheese and cinnamon tarts by hand since the 1700s.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Queijadas da Sapa in Sintra starts with a medieval lease that listed a dozen cheese tarts beside wheat, barley and a pig. It follows the pastry from barter currency to Maria Sapa, the eighteenth-century baker who turned it into a trade for travelling nobles, and looks closely at how the shell is actually made. Listen at the counter, where you can see the trays.
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