National Park and Pena Palace: E-ticket with Audio Tour on Your Phone
From $ 35,00 $ 37,44 per person
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Entrance e-ticketUse your phone or print the voucher
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Self-guided audio tourFollow the story at your own pace
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English, Español, FrançaisFor both audio and stories included
Overview
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1h 30min
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52 stories
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0.00km distance
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13 stops
The National Park and Pena Palace is the real jewel atop Sintra’s mountain, with a broad history full of adventure. When D. Manuel I built the monastery, he did not expect that from his creation, something big and important would be born. This location has seen many kings and queens passing through, notorious events and history in the making. Are you ready to explore it?
Experience the vast forested National Park and the magnificent Pena Palace at your own pace with an entry e-ticket and a fascinating self-guided audio tour on your smartphone.
Receive your ticket by email, download the app and the audio tour on your phone, prior to your visit, and travel back in time to experience the glory of the most important monument in the cultural landscape of Sintra
Put on your headphones and discover the Column Temple, the Lake Valley, the Camellia Garden , and the Monk’s Cave through the power of storytelling and learn historical information and uncommon stories and anecdotes for this spectacular attraction of Sintra. Tour’s content is the result of in-depth research, squeezed into brief original stories that will make your visit both engaging and informative. The audio tour can be used repeatedly and anytime, before or after your visit.
This is an unmissable opportunity to gain valuable insights into one of Sintra’s main and most well-known attractions, the National Park and the Pena Palace and relate to your surroundings in an entirely original way.
Directions
Your tour starts at the lake entrance. After arriving at the house of the lake gatekeeper, follow the trail all the way up, walking side-by-side with the lake. Take time to appreciate the view, and, after the greenhouse to your left, you will find the first stop of this tour.
Inclusions and Exclusions
Inclusions
- Adult entry ticket to National Park and Pena Palace
- Self-guided audio tour on your smartphone (Android & iOS)
- An activation link to access your audio tour
- Offline content (text, audio narration and maps) to avoid roaming charges
Exclusions
- Live Guide
- Smartphone or headphones
- Food and drinks
- Transportation
- App not compatible with Windows phones
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Mandatory items
- Charged smartphone
- Headphones
- For outdoor venues: comfortable shoes, hat & sunscreen
The location
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Starting point
The self-guided audio tour for Pena Palace is designed to start at the Manueline Cloister in Pena Palace(Estrada da Pena, 2710-609 Sintra, Portugal).You can take bus 434 from the train station to the Palace. Once at the entrance, a staff member will check your tickets and let you in. This will be for the shuttle bus that will take you up to the palace; if you have this ticket, wait in line. It is advised to do so on rainy days. After getting to the top, you will arrive, either on foot or not, to the shuttle bus stop. Climb the rising path ahead of you as you see the Palace in front of you and continue on until you cross a large Moorish-looking door. You will be standing right outside the palace shop for a moment: in order to enter the palace, you must continue right, through yet another monumental door and through the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, it is possible that a staff member will take your ticket again and ask you for your time slot. If you are too early, they will have you wait until your time slot opens, but if you are on time they will usher you to the line (there is a 15 minute tolerance for delays). Follow the staff’s instructions until you are about to enter a door on a yellow building, up ahead, by when another staff member will request your ticket. Once you cross this final door, you will see a great bust of King Ferdinand II and a stairwell. Take the stairwell and you will arrive in the Palace Cloister. The tour ends at the Column Temple in Sintra’s National Park(Estrada da Pena, 2710-609 Sintra, Portugal).
Important information
Opening hours
National Park and Pena Palace
- Palace (open – close):
09.00 – 18.00 Last ticket and last admission:17.30
- Gardens (open – close):
09.00 – 18.30 Last ticket and last admission: 17.30
Know before you book
- This is a combination of a downloadable self-guided audio tour for your smartphone (accessible through our app) and an entry ticket for the National Park and the Pena Palace
- No live guide or meeting point provided.
- After booking, you will receive an email with further instructions on how to access and download your audio tour. Please check your email spam folder as well.
- The course of the visit may be modified and special restrictions may be imposed. The visitors must always adhere to the guidelines of the site.
- Book per device to be used, not per participant.
- An Android (version 5.0 and later) or iOS (version 15.0 and later) smartphone is required. The audio tour is not compatible with Windows Phones, iPhone 6/6 Plus or older, iPod Touch 6th generation or older, iPad 4th generation or older, iPad Air 1st generation, iPad Mini 3rd generation or older.
- You will need storage space on your phone (100-150 MB)
- Free and reduced admission tickets can only be acquired at the ticket booth on-site.
- Please be aware that wheelchair accessibility in the Park may vary, with some routes being accessible and others not. The interior of the Palace does not prove accessible to persons facing mobility restrictions due to the presence of stairways.
- Once you arrive at the entrance of the Pena Palace complex (palace & gardens), you have to walk to get to the palace. The pedestrian walk-up is quite steep, but paved and short. Otherwise, there is a shuttle bus inside the entrance that takes you up to the entrance of Pena Palace itself.
- Due to the number of visitors, it is probably to wait in line to scan your ticket and get inside the palace
- For safety reasons, the visit to the palace is only via time slot. You have limited time at your disposal to visit its interior.
Know before you go
- Download the ticket(s) & audio tour while on WiFi prior to your visit. Mobile signal may be weak at the site(s).
- After booking, you will receive an email with further instructions on how to access and download your audio tour. Please check your email spam folder as well
- Ensure that your smartphone is fully charged & that you bring your earphones
- Visitors are advised to wear comfortable shoes
- Please wear sunscreen and a hat during the hot summer months
- The ideal time to visit the palace and the park is early morning or early evening
- The easiest way to get to Pena Palace is by bus. The bus 434 departs from Sintra Station and takes you directly to the Pena Palace complex’s entrance (stop: Pena Palace). The journey lasts 15 to 20 minutes. It is not recommended to go on foot since the road has many uphill sections and it takes almost 1 hour to reach the complex.
Download the app
To take this self-guided tour, you will need to download the Clio Muse Tours app on your iOS or Android device. Enjoy your tour!
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