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The Palácio Nacional da Pena is located at Estrada da Pena, which is on the upper part of the Parque da Pena. The palace is a National Monument and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. King Fernando II acquired the lands of a monastery in ruins in 1838. He chose the Prussian architect Baron Ludwig von Eshwege and the help of the Portuguese Possidonio da Silva. The palace was started in 1840 and finished in 1885, the year that the king died.

On the highest peaks of the Serra de Sintra stands the spectacular palace of Pena, an electric medley of architectural styles built in the 19th. century for the husband of the young queen Maria II, a national monument, one of the major expressions of 19th-century Romanticism in the world.

In 1839 King consort Dom Fernando II of Saxe Coburg-Gotha bought the ruins of the Hieronymite monastery that sat on one of the rocky peaks of the Serra de Sintra to convert into his private residence. Coat of Arms of of King Dom Fernando II of Portugal and Saxa Coburg-Gotha

Coat of Arms of King Ferdinand II of Portugal

The style of the palace is eclectic, with the main style being Romantic. The outside of the palace looks Medieval and is a beautiful work of art. The inside of the palace has beautiful furniture, china porcelain, and Bohemian lamps. At the entrance to the palace is a drawbridge.

The Portico of the Triton is one of the entrances to the Court of the arches Moorish. It is a monumental allegorical portico that symbolizes the creation of the world. Triton represented half man, half fish.

The Tritão portico, carved in stone in the shape of shells, corals and vines to symbolise the union between land and sea.

The Triton portico symbolises the creation of the world, with the elements of fire, earth, water and air all represented in its carvings

Behind it is a vestibule with neo-Moorish carvings and beyond that another terrace, the Patio dos Arcos, with a stunning view across the greenery of the mountain below

After the death of D. Fernando, in 1885, his second wife, the Countess of Edla, an opera singer and single mother, inherited the palace causing, at the time, a huge public controversy. In 1889, the widow of D. Fernando accepted a purchase bid by the King D. Luís I, although still reserving for herself the Chalet of the Countess, where she continued to live. After this acquisition, the Palace became part of the Portuguese national heritage. Surrounding it, lays the parque da Pena, occupying over 494 acres filled with gardens, ponds, bridges, caves, greenhouses and other small houses.

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