First the downside: Portugal’s newfound popularity means that there are more necks craning to see these palaces. The number of Americans visiting Portugal skyrocketed from 390,000 in 2016 to ...

This May 2013 photo shows the exterior of Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. It's like a castle seen through a kaleidoscope, one of a number of spectacular buildings found in Sintra, which has long ...

It's a funny thing about aristocracies. They always seem to get the best vacation properties: the French kings and queens had Versailles near Paris, the Habsburgs retreated to Vienna's Schoenbrunn ...

About Cascais Traveling through Portugal is one of the top things that I recommend that anyone does if they are looking ...

A fairytale-style palace in Sintra, Portugal, that was once abandoned and vandalised is back on the market for €24 million ...

Straight out of a Disney movie,” was my first reaction when we rounded a corner and spied the Pena National Palace atop a hill in the distance. Fort walls, towers and minarets reminiscent of a ...

Sintra National Palace in Portugal is a veritable Disneyland of architectural influences, all of them whimsically indulgent. Photo / Getty Images When King Henrique I, the unifier of Portugal ...

No matter how well it begins or ends, every fairy tale has a villain. In my storybook adventure in Sintra, a Portuguese town about 20 miles west of Lisbon, it was the hands of the clock; roaming ...

The Romans lived here, then the Moors, and then, for a while, Portugal’s kings (only part of the royal palace remains). A Roman temple relic can be found in the center of town; its 14 Corinthian ...

TRAVEL IN EUROPE. Portugal's palaces pose trips of fantasy. March 27, 2016 at 1:55 a.m. by Rick Steves ...