• Director(s):

    DIVERS

  • Producer(s):

    SYSTEM TV

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

With its fortifications, its private palaces, its baroque residences and its fine gardens, the region of Sintra, situated a few kilometres from Lisbon, features a highly singular landscape, born out of man’s imagination. It was here that in 1503, King Manuel 1st watched as Vasco de Gama and his Portuguese navigators returned to Sintra, having set out to discover the world.

Invited by the Portuguese monarchy and the Lisbon aristocracy, the Romantic artists captured Sintra in the 19th century. Certain secondary residences were gradually turned into palaces.