Schedules, prices and tickets of Monserrate Palace

Schedules of Monserrate Palace and Park

Open everydays.

Monserrate Palace and Park tickets prices

18 to 64 yrs : 12,00 euros.
6 to 17 yrs : 10,00 euros.
+ 65 yrs : 10,00 euros
Tickets to Monserrate Palace and garden

Free :
– Until 5 years.
– On Sundays and public holidays, for residents in Portugal.

Address: Rua Barbosa Du Bocage. 2710-405 Sintra.

Palace and Park of Monserrate history

4 kilometers from the center of Sintra, are the Monserrate Palace and Park, from the 19th century, where the exotic and vegetal motifs of the interior decoration extend harmoniously outside. The lawn in front of the palace allows for a well-deserved rest while discovering one of the richest Portuguese botanical gardens and one of the most beautiful Romantic landscape creations in Portugal.
Quinta de Monserrate was leased by Gerard de Visme (1789), a wealthy English merchant, who built a house there in neo-Gothic style. William Beckford subleased Monserrate in 1793-1794 but, by 1809, when Lord Byron visited the property, the house was already in ruins. The sublime appearance of the property was a source of inspiration for the poet, who sang Monserrate in his work Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.
One of the famous visitors was Francis Cook, an Englishman later honored by King D. Luís with the title of Viscount of Monserrate in 1856. The Palace of Monserrate, which displays, in its decoration, medieval and orientalizing influences, is, with the Palace da Pena, one of the most important examples of romantic architecture in Portugal.
Species from all over the world were organized by geographic areas, from Mexico, reflecting the diverse origins of the plants and composing scenes along paths, among ruins, corners, lakes and waterfalls. Thanks to the painter William Stockdale and the master gardener Francis Burt and Francis Cook, we can find Monserrate Park as it is.
There are also species from Sintra (such as arboreal strawberry trees, holly trees and imposing cork oaks). Ancestral araucaria and palm trees, tree ferns from Australia and New Zealand and agaves and yuccas that recreate a scene from Mexico. On this tour of the five continents through botany, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and bamboo also stand out, evoking a garden in Japan.
Source: Parques de Sintra

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