Sintra Mountains
The Sintra Mountains or locally the Serra De Sintra is a mountain range in western Portugal. Its highest point is (1,736 feet [529 m]) is near Sintra. The range covers about 10 miles (16 km) from the resort town of Sintra to Cabo da Roca on the Atlantic Ocean. It was known to the Ancient World as Lunae Mons (mountains of the Moon) and was the legendary retreat of Diana the Huntress (Cynthia to the Romans, hence Çintra).
It has a rich fauna, and her example, the fox, the genet, the mole, the salamander, the peregrine falcon, the viper and various species of scaly reptiles. Its climate is temperate with many oceanic influences and hence presents a higher rainfall for the remaining area of Lisbon. It also follows a unique vegetation. About nine hundred plant species are indigenous and 10% are endemic. Some of them are oak, cork oak and pine wood.
It is the target of several sightseeing tours. It is also largely climbing and mountaineering practitioners, since the slopes are mostly oriented to the west, which increases the length of light in summer afternoons.
It is in the Serra de Sintra, which are located: the Moorish Castle, the Pena Palace, the Capuchin Convent, the Sintra National Palace, the Palace of Monserrate and the Quinta da Regaleira.
Since long ago it has been a place full of myths and legends about supernatural activities and ones without obvious explanation. In 2009 a Portuguese television channel created a television series based on the supernatural environment that lived in Sintra.[1] The story, set in a college in the middle of the mountain tells of an impossible love between a vampire and a human girl, but she also had supernatural powers that are being discovered throughout the episodes.
References
- ↑ Official Site: http://sic.sapo.pt/online/sites%20sic/lua-vermelha