This Sintra tourist map marks 10 numbered top sights and a 6.9 km walking route from the Volta do Duche to the Pena National Palace. The PDF lists 5 hidden gems with addresses. It is free to view, print and download.
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The sights are described on Sintra tourist attractions.
The numbers below match the pins on the map, the PDF and the video. The first 7 sights sit on the walking route from the centre up to the Pena hill; the other 3 lie off it: MU.SA near the station, the Santa Eufémia viewpoint on the hilltop south-east of Pena and Monserrate Palace, a bus ride west.
The PDF lists 5 hidden gems with their addresses. Only the Fonte Mourisca, on the Volta do Duche, falls inside the map frame; the other 4 lie outside it, and the PDF gives their distance from the centre.
The PDF is the same map on three A4 pages. Page 1 holds the map with the numbered legend, how to get around, the sources and the licence. Page 2 describes sights 1 to 8 with photo, text, address, access and photo credits. Page 3 adds sights 9 and 10, the 5 hidden gems with their addresses and the neighbourhoods. In English, 1.3 MB. Edition: October 2026.
Start of a 6.9 km (4.3 miles) route, about 2 h 00 on foot without the visits and mostly uphill, on the tree-lined promenade from the station to the old town. Free at all hours, with the Neo-Arabic Fonte Mourisca along the way. The first leg heads west, 0.6 km, to Largo Rainha Dona Amélia.
In the historic centre, the palace is known by the two conical chimneys of its royal kitchen. Documented from 1281, it holds tiled halls such as the Swan Room and the Room of the Coats of Arms. Ticketed. The route heads west out of the centre, 1.1 km, to Quinta da Regaleira.
Luigi Manini built the estate for Carvalho Monteiro between 1904 and 1910: a palace, a chapel and gardens with the spiral Initiation Well, tunnels, grottoes and a waterfall lake. Timed entry, with an hour of grace after the booked time. The next leg winds uphill to the south-east, 1.2 km, to Casa Biester.
A Romantic house and wooded park designed by Luigi Manini and José Luis Monteiro, on Avenida Almeida Garrett just above Quinta da Regaleira. Ticketed. The route turns east, 0.7 km, to Villa Sassetti.
Free gardens and a trail of mossy granite boulders, open 10:00 to 18:00, entered near Largo Ferreira de Castro. The line on the map skips that trail: it returns towards the old town and climbs past the Igreja de Santa Maria to the castle, 1.8 km, the longest leg. The Villa Sassetti trail is the direct alternative.
Ramparts of granite blocks run along the ridge between watchtowers and a keep, over the old town, Pena and the Atlantic. The parapet walk is stepped and uneven, closer to a hike than a stroll. Ticketed. The last leg climbs south, 1.5 km, to the Pena National Palace.
The route ends on the hilltop above the town. Ferdinand II wrapped this Romanticist palace around a ruined 1503 monastery from 1838, in yellow, red and tilework. Timed entry, park sold separately: the palace admits visitors only at the time on the ticket. Bus 434 links Pena with Sintra station.
The town is walkable but steep. The 7 stops of the route cover 6.9 km, about 2 h 00 on foot without the visits, and climb steeply from the centre to Pena. The longest leg is the 1.8 km from Villa Sassetti to the Moorish Castle, about 36 minutes.
Scotturb runs two bus routes for visitors from Sintra station. Bus 434 climbs to the Moorish Castle and the Pena National Palace, with a stop at Casa Biester, and returns through the historic centre. Bus 435 serves the Sintra National Palace, Quinta da Regaleira and Monserrate Palace.
From Lisbon, CP trains on the Sintra line leave from Rossio, Entrecampos and Oriente. Sintra station is 10 to 15 minutes on foot from the historic centre.
Sights outside the walking route:
Entry to three sights on the walking route can be booked online: Quinta da Regaleira and the Pena National Palace, both with timed entry, and the Moorish Castle.
The map, the PDF, the walking route and the texts are © 2026 World Tourist Office and free to copy, share, print and adapt, also commercially, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The only condition is a credit to World Tourist Office with a link to this page.
The photos are not covered by this licence: they are © their respective owners, used here under their own licences, and may not be extracted or reused separately. Where a photo carries its own credit line, that credit and its licence apply. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), tiles © OpenFreeMap: keep that credit too. The World Tourist Office name and logo are trademarks and are not licensed.
Four photos in the PDF and the video carry their own credit: Volta do Duche, "Volta do Duche promenade in Sintra" by Gabriel Perazzo, licensed under CC BY 2.0; Casa Biester, "Casa Biester turret among the palms" by Ray Swi-hymn, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0; MU.SA - Sintra Museum of the Arts, "Former Sintra Casino, home to MU.SA" by DiogoBaptista, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; Miradouro de Santa Eufémia, "View from the Miradouro de Santa Eufemia" by Vitor Oliveira, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Credit to copy: Sintra Tourist Map by World Tourist Office, touristoffice.org/sintra-tourist-map/, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
