House 956 м² in Sintra, Portugal

10 minutes from the historic center of Sintra and a few hundred meters from the Moorish castle, Miradoro de Santa Eufemia and Palacio da Pena, on a vast plot of 8,260 m2 with gardens, lakes and lush vegetation in the Sintra-Cascais National Park. The main building, a palace with the date 1810 on the grand entrance, is decorated with tiles of the period and intricate stone details that adorn its secular facade, full of history surrounded by the buconic landscape of the Sintra Natural Park, classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1955. Spread over 4 floors, it is connected to a second building proposed to be demolished and replaced by the current building, camouflaged in a beautiful garden characteristic of this landscape. The building complex, with a total area of about 1,100 square meters, also includes a pavilion, a small chapel, a garage and a secondary house (in ruins) outside the complex, with a private patio, as well as a 763 square meter reservoir to be completely renovated. The beauty and mystery of Sintra caused, especially in the late c. XVIII, the search for foreigners to settle in the area, mainly Englishmen. In 1787, the English millionaire William Beckford arrives in Sintra to settle in the palace of the Seti. The last wave of great lords of Monserrate belonged to the English, in particular the Cook family. In 1846 Francis Cook, a wealthy textile entrepreneur, built the palace of Monserrate and settled there.