Given free rein to design a palace in Portugal in 1904, a cashed-up, eccentric entomologist named Carvalho Monteiro came up with Quinta da Regaleira: a mishmash of architectural styles sprinkled ...

Sintra, Portugal is a magical destination in the mountains with fairytale-like palaces, castles, and fortifications! There ...

I started my first morning at Quinta da Regaleira, an outrageously Gothic 1910 palace which also includes a chapel, park, lakes, and dramatic dry wells. I arrived before the morning buses and had ...

Completed in 1910, Quinta da Regaleira was the private residence ... From 1789 onwards, the Palace of Monserrate housed one wealthy Englishman after another, even earning a mention in a few ...

Quinta da Regaleira is a postcard-perfect mix of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance architecture. But it’s what lies beneath the palace’s gardens that truly sets the estate’s design ...