The Blazons Hall
A dome of 72 arms in gold over blue.
Diego Delso — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Michael Gaylard from Horsham, UK — CC BY 4.0 · Michael Gaylard from Horsham, UK — CC BY 4.0 · Susanne Nilsson — CC BY-SA 2.0
Two functions: Pena is the image — colour, summit, dream — this the history — eight real centuries in the truest rooms. First visits give Pena the image's verdict — lovers of substance and azulejo, and queue-refugees, find the National deeper worth at a quarter the effort.
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The National Palace is the town's heart and Portugal's oldest continuously lived palace: kings dwelt here nearly eight unbroken centuries — Islamic in origin (the palace of Sintra's governors), built dynasty over dynasty, its two white conical chimneys of 33 metres becoming Sintra's own emblem. Its interiors are Portugal's richest medieval rooms: the Swan Hall's ceiling of crowned swans, the Magpie Hall — birds bearing the motto For good, their tale a complete royal court — and the Coats-of-Arms Hall, a golden dome of the kingdom's seventy-two noble blazons over blue azulejo: among Iberia's greatest ceilings — with the royal kitchen as the giant chimneys' interior. And its azulejo is Portugal's oldest and richest preserved royal tile (15th-century Mudéjar in Sevillian patterns) — the tile palace par excellence, its town-centre stance the visit needing no bus.
A dome of 72 arms in gold over blue.
The 33-metre cones — Sintra's emblem.
The oldest preserved royal azulejo.
Largo Rainha Dona Amélia, 2710-616 Sintra