Sanctuary of Peninha
Hilltop baroque chapel and unfinished Romantic mansion with sweeping Atlantic coastline views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sanctuary of Peninha, high in the hills above Sintra, is about two builders a couple of centuries apart who chose the same granite summit. One is a hermit collecting pilgrims' coins around the year seventeen hundred; the other is António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, the coffee-and-gemstone millionaire who arrived in nineteen eighteen with a plan inspired by Pena Palace. Best heard on the terrace between the chapel and the battlemented house.
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