This is an opportunity to stay in an authentic country home and live like a native of Sintra. As the ground floor apartment of a 19th century villa, the apartment is surrounded by a garden that allows the traveler to rest his bones swinging in a hammock or just sitting in the sun with an iced tea after a long day’s tramp up to Pena Palace. Ideally located in hilly Sintra, renting a car would facilitate excursions the the nearby beaches below and the many palaces above.