After spending 4 days in Barcelona, I left for Lisbon and was absolutely enchanted. Lisbon is a hilly city covered with gorgeous tile-covered buildings and great weather. There are a lot of great vistas that also double as gardens to look over the city and nice castles with green spaces in them. However, the best spaces I went to were outside of Lisbon, in Sintra. There I visited the western most point of Europe and well as two castles and the town of Sintra itself. My favorite "castle" was Regaleira (it's actually an estate), but not because of the building. The park surrounding it was enchanting and quite mysterious with a ton of grottoes, underground tunnels, towers, terraces and hidden water features to be discovered, all built into the mountainside. I also visited the ultra-romantic Pena Palace (an actual palace) that was higher up the mountain than Sintra. This palace had only a few interior gardens but a magnificent view of the countryside.
A handsome peacock atop one of the walls of the garden of Sao Jorge castle in Lisbon.
One of the gates of Regaleira Palace. The Moorish Castle can be seen at the top of the hill.
Terrace and walled towers, photo taken from an adjacent tower in the park.
Beautiful mossy fountain outside of Pena Palace.
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