Volta do Duche
Curving tree-lined road named for vanished healing baths, with a horseshoe-arched Moorish fountain.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Volta do Duche in Sintra goes back to eighteen forty-eight, when a homeopathic doctor asked permission to open public baths beside a spring on this wooded slope. It follows the mockery of his fellow physicians, the English summer visitors who became his regulars, and a century-long faith in the healing power of water. Best heard standing on the curve near the Moorish fountain.
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