About this guide

SintraCastle.com is an independent guide to visiting the castle and palaces of Sintra in Portugal: which hilltop holds the real castle, how the timed tickets work, how to get up the hill without a car and which tours from Lisbon are worth booking. We are not Parques de Sintra, not the Quinta da Regaleira, not a tour operator and not GetYourGuide.

We check the facts on this website against official sources, above all the visitor pages of Parques de Sintra, the transport operators and the current listings on GetYourGuide. Where a detail comes from a listing, we say so, and it applies to that listing only. Opening hours, closures and rules change; when in doubt, what Parques de Sintra or the operator publishes on the day wins.

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