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Pena Palace
Pena Palace (PalaciodaPena) located in the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal, the town of Sintra (Sintra), the palace is pink, is Moore nobility and the Portuguese royal summer palace. Palace in Sintra reason is because the construction of shadow of the woods here, everywhere verdant scenery up people. The ups and downs with hills, palaces, castles and villas located right among the green lawn, cultural landscape and natural beauty blend together, no wonder the poet Lord Byron described as the Garden of Eden to Sintra.
As early as the reign of the Moors, Sintra Palace (PalacioNacionaldeSintra) already exist, but be like this today is the beginning from the early 15th century, after several expansion and reconstruction of the results – a Moorish, Gothic and Portuguese type of mixture. Magnificent palace, the most beautiful swan to the number of rooms, drawing flocks of swans wearing a crown in the ceiling. Queen of the 19th century the last 80 years still live here. 100 years later, opened the Royal Palace.
Light pink, and as the top rocket-like castle towers, it looks like a park-style castle. There are also trails, porch and fixed bridge and so on, forming a variety of architectural style integrated with the castle. Pena Palace was built in 1840-1850 years, nearly a half century ago, but it is relatively new Sintra palace was.
Pena bright, strange, pretentious posture looks like a park-style castle. The palace itself is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, both Gothic, Renaissance, Moorish, Manuel type (Manueline, King Manuel I of Portugal, the architectural style of the reign) is the nineteenth century, Queen of Portugal Maria II’s husband – Ferdinand (FerdinandofSaxe-Coburg-Gotha) of crystallization. Ferdinand, inspired by German Romanticism, German architects von 埃施韦格南 mandate Jazz (BaronvonEschwege) for Xing construction, mainly built in 1840 – in 1850, finally completed in 1885, that Ferdinand’s death that year.
Living in this region and other high-brow, the idea of building under the same residence, Sintra makes the center of the European Romantic architecture, its parks and gardens and later style is more deeply affected the landscape design. They have a uniquely cultural values, this region in 1995 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Moore city ruins (CastelodosMouros) and Pena Geranium Strictipes sea. Compared with the Pena Palace, here is a run-down of the site, with desolate beauty. Although the present meandering undulating walls covered with moss, but it occupies the entire mountain, the scale and as long as people’s imagination. Accompanied by fresh mountain air along the wall to go, you can enjoy the lush mountainside and its arms around the thick woods of several brilliant green in the white house and the foot was pale orange under the new Delaware City.