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Discover Portugal - Sintra - Thomas J. Sullivan describes his visit to the World Heritage town. Photographs of its palaces, hotels and other historic buildings.
Cultural Landscape of Sintra - UNESCO explains its listing of Sintra as a World Heritage site.
ZonaSintra - Reflects a concern to protect the natural beauty of Sintra through art images, literary quotations and original texts. Portuguese and English versions.
Casa Miradouro - A guest house located in the historic centre of Sintra built around 1890 for a family of army officers. History, photographs, description and details of the locale.
Virtual Portugal: Sintra - An illustrated guide to the attractions of the historic town. Photographs with brief description of the palaces, churches, museums and other sights. Maps and visitor information.
Quinta das Sequoias - Bed and breakfast in redwood forest setting. Providing facilities in a peaceful and private Sintra location with mountain views.
Quinta da Paderna - Picturesque old guesthouse nestled in the mountainside, a short walk from the center of Sintra.
Penha Longa - A former palace and monastery now a hotel and golf resort. History, photographs, information on the swimming pools and restaurants, reservation form.
House Rental for Holidays - In the countryside close to Sintra. Photographs.
Quinta Verde Sintra - Offers bed and breakfast in the countryside near Várzea, 4 km from the Old Quarter of Sintra. Includes photographs, rates and description of the locale.
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Sintra The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Sintra "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sintra As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Sintra Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Sintra Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Sintra >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Sintra If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sintra The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Sintra Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Sintra "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Sintra I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Sintra "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sintra You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Sintra A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Sintra Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Sintra Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Sintra "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Sintra If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Sintra "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Sintra Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Sintra Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I still live. -- Daniel Webster, dying words Sintra
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