Private Sintra Tours

Sintra appears in 4 of our itineraries across Portugal, ranging from 7–9 days. Every one is private, and every one can be reshaped around the time you want to spend here.

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From our itineraries

What a day in Sintra looks like.

Taken from the itineraries themselves — these are real days from trips we run, not a generic description of the city.

Day 3 · North of Portugal

Sintra Excursion & Belém

Your driver and guide collect you after breakfast for a day that covers two of Portugal's most unforgettable sites. First, the Serra de Sintra — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of ancient forest, mist, and royal palaces rising above the Atlantic plain. Pena Palace is the centrepiece: a gloriously eccentric confection of canary-yellow walls, Moorish towers, and Gothic battlements perched above the treeline with the ocean visible on clear mornings. Your guide leads you through the palace gardens and the town of Sintra below, where cobbled lanes wind past convents and quintas unchanged since the Moorish era. On the return to Lisbon, your driver stops in Belém — the maritime quarter where Portugal's Age of Discovery began. Jerónimos Monastery, whose Manueline stone carvings celebrate the sea with ropes and armillary spheres, stands beside the Tower of Belém and the Monument to the Discoverers on the Tagus waterfront. End with a pastéis de nata from the bakery where the recipe has been a closely guarded secret since 1837.

Pena Palace — Sintra's royal fantasy above the treeline
UNESCO World Heritage Sintra landscape
Jerónimos Monastery and Tower of Belém

Day 3 · Best of Portugal

Sintra & Cabo da Roca

The Serra de Sintra rises from the Atlantic plain forty minutes west of Lisbon — a granite ridge of ancient forest, mist, and palaces built by kings who wanted to live inside a dream. Your guide meets you at Pena Palace, the most extravagant of Sintra's royal confections: canary-yellow walls, Moorish towers, Gothic battlements, and a terrace from which the Atlantic is visible on clear mornings. The palace grounds and the town below — its lanes full of quintas, convents, and pastry shops selling travesseiros — take up the morning comfortably. After lunch, your driver continues west to Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of mainland Europe: a stark headland above 140-metre cliffs, a lighthouse, and an ocean view that extends to the horizon with nothing between you and North America. The Portuguese poet Luís de Camões called this place the point where the land ends and the sea begins — you'll understand why the moment you step out of the car.