Title

Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal, 2009. Artist: Samuel Magal

Caption

Pena National Palace, Sintra, Portugal, 2009. Pena National Palace is located on a rocky ridge above Sintra. It is one of several palaces in the Sintra Hills which were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status as a 'cultural landscape' in 1995. The palace, which was built between 1842 and 1854, features a mixture of building styles that range from Moorish to pseudo-medieval. It occupies the site of a Hieronymite monastery that was abandoned after the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and Portugal's outlawing of religious orders in 1834. The palace is surrounded by Pena Park which offers walking paths, fountains, lakes, follies and belvederes.

Date

1955

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Samuel Magal

Reference

HRM19D78_131

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,0Mb) / 11,4in x 17,1in / 3413 x 5120 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe city building buildings architecture country tower Portugal Moorish continent European castle color colour palace fortification grounds location century turret photograph battlements concept Portuguese 21st century romanticism Sintra world heritage site Pena National Palace merlon 19th century UNESCO nineteenth century historic Distrito de Lisboa TGN photograph Sites & Photos Samuel Magal pseodo-medieval Sintra Hills Magal Samuel photograph