Maya Batat

This was probably my favorite place to visit in Sintra and I wish I had spent more time here. The grounds are just really pretty and nice to wander around. It’s also massive and the maps don’t make it very easy to navigate but it’s still very pretty. The initiation well is quite unnecessary in my opinion. You have to wait in line maybe 20-30 minutes just to walk down into the well and have a million people in your pictures. But other than that it’s a nice park and you can get some really cute photos

I actually had a better time here than at Peña Palace. I got here at 5:30 on a Wednesday and basically had the entire place to myself. They were roping off rooms as I got closer to the end of the palace but I felt I got to see most of it. There are a couple of rooms that have really intricate detail on the ceiling that make it worth visiting