Sintra - Pena Palace

Sintra was going to be a whirlwind day. 3 stops, the first was Pena Palace. Thankfully Bailey did additional research for this one and realized that you need to build in an extra 30 minutes before your timed entry ticket to get from the entrance to the grounds up to the palace (and yes I mean UP!)
We caught the bus that does a loop of the main sites at the train station and wound our way up and up and up towards the palace.
Luckily we were there with some time to spare and did get a few minutes to explore some of the gardens but we didn’t want to miss our timed entry so really only saw a very small bit of the grounds.
Once inside the palace proper, we toured the inside of the palace building and then the castle wall before finishing up our visit.
Peña Palace is one of those “must see” kind of places as it’s so iconic. The colourful buildings and towers are beautiful. It is surrounded by gardens and woods that you could likely spend hours exploring. We did the very quick bucket list visit and I think that’s good enough for me 😉Read more