{"id":3317,"date":"2023-06-28T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/sintra-cascais-natural-park\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:21:38","slug":"sintra-cascais-natural-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/sintra-cascais-natural-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Sintra-Cascais Natural Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yes, we climbed up there.<\/i><\/div>\n

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Today is dedicated to Sintra<\/a>, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  We visited the Castle of the Moors and the Pena National Palace.<\/p>\n

Getting there was extremely easy!  Our trusty Lisbon Pass includes a free train ride to Sintra.  We got up early, took the Metro to the train station and the train to Sintra.  I used Google Maps to get around the park.  I recommend taking a power bank.  I needed to recharge twice.  The history was amazing!<\/p>\n

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To prepare us for the Camino, we didn’t take the bus, but actually walked up the mountain.  It was a 574 ft. climb, but the stretching out was critical for me.  I’m still sore from the muscle pull I suffered from on the first day.  The joke between Jill and I was that Google Fit only registered 3 Heart Points even though we walked all the way up to the top of the Moorish Castle!  I was huffing and puffing the whole way! Evidently, we didn’t storm the castle fast enough! <\/p>\n

We had lunch at the nice restaurant on the Pena National Palace.  It is authentic, delicious, and not expensive.<\/p>\n

There are many more pictures in the Photo gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Yes, we climbed up there. Today is dedicated to Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  We visited the Castle of the Moors and the Pena National Palace. Getting there was extremely easy!  Our trusty Lisbon Pass includes a free train ride to Sintra.  We got up early, took the Metro to the train station … Continue reading Sintra-Cascais Natural Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caminoportugues2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jphikes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}