The Pena Palace of Sintra is a Romanticist castle completed in 1854, on a hill above Sintra, and can be easily spotted from Lisbon on a clear day.  The site used to be a medieval chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena until   King Manuel I ordered that a monastery be built — which was then donated to the Order of Saint Jerome. However it was heavily damaged by the great Lisbon earthquake;  the chapel survived. surprising King Ferdinand II. It was then decided by the king to acquire the monastery and build what is now the grand Pena Palace as a  summer residence of the King.  In 1889 it was purchased by the Portuguese State and later classified as a national monument and transformed into a museum.  Unused card.  Grade: 1