Destinations / Sintra
🇵🇹 Sintra travel guide
Fairytale palaces in misty hills, 40 minutes from Lisbon by train.
- Best time to visit
- Weekdays, spring or autumn. Arrive when the gates open.
- Daily budget
- About £40–£70 for a day trip including entry tickets.
- Getting there
- Train from Lisbon Rossio station, about 40 minutes and a few euros.
- Getting around
- Bus 434 loops the main palaces. Walking between them is steep but pretty.
- Where to stay
- Most visit as a day trip from Lisbon. Stay over for quiet morning visits.
Top things to do in Sintra
- Pena Palace (book the first slot)
- Quinta da Regaleira's initiation well
- Moorish Castle walls
- Cabo da Roca, Europe's westernmost point
Sintra travel hacks
- 💡 Do Quinta da Regaleira first, before the tour buses arrive.
- 💡 Buy palace tickets online to skip the long queues.
Picture-perfect spots
- Pena Palace — A red-and-yellow palace on a misty hilltop above Sintra.