{"id":3624,"date":"2015-10-23T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2015-10-24T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:54:51","slug":"dreamy-sintra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/dreamy-sintra\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamy Sintra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sintra in\u00a0a nutshell is\u00a0where fairytales are born\u00a0. It is a place where you believe in romance, princesses, dreams\u00a0and sword fighting on horses. It is a place where Walt Disney must have spent time and it puts actual Disneyland to shame ( ok that’s a lie but almost!)<\/p>\n

I had read up on this town- about 40 minutes from Lisbon- before our trip and mapped out the must see sights. Although I did my research and saw the photos- visiting the town surpassed any expectations I had dreamt up in my head. It was so much better. Sintra is set in the mountains and has a woodland vibe to it. There are moss covered rocks and bushels of flowers that surprised us at every turn and as evident in the photos below- Castles! Colourful ones!<\/p>\n

Like any true Castle builder, the people that did this one up- decided to build it up in the mountains. The effect I assume they were going for definitely worked because even from the bottom of the mountain in the little town below- you could see the bright yellow peaks and crevices peering from the clouds. It looked enchanting and inviting even on a small scale. Naturally- we decided to walk up to the two main sights instead of taking a bus or cab. After\u00a0putting in some serious miles in\u00a0Lisbon the day before -my legs were definitely feeling it on our walk up and at certain times I felt more like\u00a0Paperbag Princess\u00a0instead of Rapunzula being dainty on her balcony. The minute we made it up though- I felt like the latter and shifted into “I’m in a Fairytale mode”. I was overwhelmed with how beautiful this place was and I couldn’t help but skip around and smile from ear to ear.<\/p>\n

My only regret from visiting Sintra is not spending a bit more time there.<\/p>\n

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Sintra in a nutshell is where fairytales are born . It is a place where you believe in romance, princesses, dreams and sword fighting on horses. It is a place where Walt Disney must have spent time and it puts actual Disneyland to shame ( ok that’s a lie but almost!) I had read up on this town- about 40 minutes from Lisbon- before our trip and mapped out the must see sights. Although I did my research and saw the photos- visiting the town surpassed any expectations I had dreamt up in my head. It was so much better. Sintra is set in the mountains and has a woodland vibe to it. There are moss covered rocks and bushels of flowers that surprised us at every turn and as evident in the photos below- Castles! Colourful ones! Like any true Castle builder, the people that did this one up- decided to build it up in the mountains. The effect I assume they were going for definitely worked because even from the bottom of the mountain in the little town below- you could see the bright yellow peaks and crevices peering from the clouds. It looked enchanting and inviting even on a small scale. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-portugal","tag-sintra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedaydreamdiaries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}