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== See also == | == See also == | ||
*[[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe and North America]] | *[[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe and North America]] | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
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| + | *[http://www.cm-sintra.pt Official website of the city of Sintra] | ||
[[Category:Portuguese Cities and Towns]] | [[Category:Portuguese Cities and Towns]] | ||
[[Category:World Heritage Sites]] | [[Category:World Heritage Sites]] | ||
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Sintra is a city in the west of Portugal and has a population of 377,835 (2011).
Cultural Landscape of Sintra
In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other fine dwellings, built along the same lines in the surrounding serra, created a unique combination of parks and gardens which influenced the development of landscape architecture throughout Europe.[1]