Park and Palace of Monserrate, Sintra

Traveler  A nearby plaque read: The ruin of Monserrate is a construction contemporary to the first Palace of Monserrate, built on the orders of Gerard de Visme in 1790. Its original function would have been as a landscaping ornament while also referred to as the place for accommodating the horse handlers. This is a singular building, the only physical witness of the architectural design of the Palace of de Visme, displaying the same windows, turrets, pinnacles, stone masonry, plaster and constructed effects that appear in engravings of the aforementioned palace. The building was already in ruins at the time of arrival of Francis Cook in Monserrate. In 1869, the site was described by Thomas Cargill, in his poem about Monserrate "Fairy life in Fairy Land", as a "ruined fane", thus a church in ruins (fane comes from the Latin fanum that means temple or sanctuary), resulting in the idea that this was a chapel. There is no certainty as to the exact date of planting of the Australian rubber tree on this site. The first reference comes from 1929 but its origins may well substantially pre-date that year. The apparent fusion between the building and the tree depicts the supremacy of Nature over Man.

Traveler  wow the crowds are amazing... how could you move?

Traveler  must sound amazing