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Palácio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal.

"The Pena National Palace constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th century Romanticism in Portugal.

This National Monument was built by the initiative of D. Fernando of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, who married Queen Mary II, in 1836. Endowed with a complete education, the future King Fernando II quickly fell in love with Sintra and, when going up the Mountain range for the first time, sighted the ruins of the old Convent of Frades Hieronimitas, originally built by Diogo Boitac in the reign of King John II and substantially transformed by King Manuel I that, when fulfilling a promise, ordered it to be reconstructed, into rock, in praise of Our Lady of Pena, donating it again to the Ordem dos Monges de S. Jeronimo (a monks' order)."

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Description
Palácio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal.

"The Pena National Palace constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th century Romanticism in Portugal.

This National Monument was built by the initiative of D. Fernando of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, who married Queen Mary II, in 1836. Endowed with a complete education, the future King Fernando II quickly fell in love with Sintra and, when going up the Mountain range for the first time, sighted the ruins of the old Convent of Frades Hieronimitas, originally built by Diogo Boitac in the reign of King John II and substantially transformed by King Manuel I that, when fulfilling a promise, ordered it to be reconstructed, into rock, in praise of Our Lady of Pena, donating it again to the Ordem dos Monges de S. Jeronimo (a monks' order)."

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