The Estoril coast, incorporating holiday hotspots offers great beaches and a choice of historic sights. We stop at cosmopolitan seaside town of Estoril with the biggest casino in Europe, its gardens, cafes and esplanades and the famous Tamariz beach – your guide will walk with you to the beach to show you where the personalities of the XX century used to sunbathe: exiled kings, refugees from the wars, millionaires, all the jet set from different countries in the world. We also stop at Cascais fishing port swiftly expanded to an elegant, cosmopolitan, coastal resort. Once stop of navigators like Columbus and Vasco da Gama. From the harbor there’s a nice view of Estoril bay, a flash marina and a castle.
Drive across the luxuriant Sintra Mountain and its gardens - "The Glorious Eden" - by twisted roads bordered by several plants, its mystical hills dotted with fairytale palaces and extravagant villas that have bewitched visitors for centuries. We stop at Sintra’s historical town center, a listed UNESCO world heritage site. It is made up of a charming maze of steep, narrow streets lined with fine examples of old palatial homes hiding behind lichen-covered walls, while local pastry shops provide the famous Sintra ‘queijadas’ (cheese pastries), ‘travesseiros’ (egg and almond pastries) and local wine. The town is also full of shops that carry many of the local crafts like pottery, ceramics and lace. Confort stop for a coffee, glass of local wine and taste of the delicious pastries (not included in the price).
Next is Mafra, a very impressive monastery and palace, among the largest and most notable monastery complexes in Europe Built with more than a dozen different marbles from Portugal and Italy, making it one of the finest showcases of Italian Baroque marble work outside Italy. Guided tour of the most notorious rooms of this 18th-century Baroque palace and the Basilica, a grand Baroque church.
