Ooh!
Oh, my God!
You even feel kind of afraid here.
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Cheers!
Hello from Sintra, Portugal.
We're on a day trip from Lisbon.
Nobody waiting for this train this early.
In my previous video, I already showed you
how to get a train to come here,
and also visit Pena Palace and the Moorish Castle.
Welcome to the oldest construction in Sintra.
We got combined discounts.
They added the card discount,
plus a combined discount for buying tickets to various attractions.
If you missed this video,
it's linked up here and in the description.
Now, we're going for lunch, and then visit Quinta da Regaleira.
Fantasyland!
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Filmed before the pandemic
We have just finished visiting the Moorish Castle,
and now we need to make our way downhill.
-Man: Let's go to the city, guys.
-No, thank you. Thank you. -You're welcome.
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Wow! There's USB charger in the bus.
Shuttles should run every five minutes,
but we waited for 15 to 20 minutes until ours,
and people were already at the stop waiting for them.
If you don't want to wait, you can go up via taxi or Uber,
and come down via tuk-tuk.
Plenty of tuk-tuks up there just like these ones.
Just like the ones in Southeast Asia, just waiting for tourists.
It's gonna be more expensive, but it saves you time.
Let's go for lunch and then visit one more attraction here in Sintra.
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Such a charming place, so cute!
And good prices for the daily specials.
Cheers!
That is enormous!
Now, you'll be happy after eating all this, huh?
I ordered a codfish cake
because this is something you got to try when you come to Portugal,
very traditional, very typical here.
Codfish cakes with tomato rice.
You're already checking mine! [laughs]
Good? -Uh-hmm.
Deep-fried cod, delicious.
It's always good.
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-Happy hour?
-Man: Happy hour? Two? -2 for €1.
-And I play the other one...
...so it's not Happy Hour for me. -So it's free!
[laughs]
-Is it €1 to try Port wine? -Yes, €1.
-So, two here. One for each.
-Port wine? -Yes, please.
One for you, one for me.
None of us has to drive, anyways, right?
-We'll drive the train.
-Obrigada. [thank you in Portuguese]
The famous!
Yeah. Cheers!
Verdict?
Verdict? [in Portuguese]
-Porto. -Porto.
-Good? -Good
-Very good -Yes
-This is different, huh?
-It is, it's Porto.
-It is very different, yeah.
Yeah, but it's different.
-It is Porto. Porto.
Totally different from the type of wines we normally have.
-Yeah, because it's Port. -I know.
-It's different. -It's totally different.
A little bit sweet, a little bit of sparkling, right?
-No, it's not sparkling. It's sweet.
It's Porto. -It is a little bit sparkling.
It shows I don't understand that much of wine.
[laughs] But it is good.
Are you sure you don't think it's sparkling?
-No.
Wow, you drunk it all.
[laughs]
In one sip, everything is gone here.
To Portugal!
The National Palace of Sintra is located downtown,
very close to all the shops and restaurants.
They are right there,
and here we are, very easy.
This is considered one of the best preserved
medieval royal residences in Portugal.
Actually, it's the oldest palace in the entire country,
1,000 years of history.
The only palace that spans the entire history of Portugal.
And I saw some reviews saying that it is very beautiful inside.
It should be an interesting visit.
But we chose something a little bit more eccentric and unique,
10 minutes away.
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So can you handle five more minutes walking?
-Yeah. From here?
-No, from the line. -Five minutes were back there.
-Yeah. So can you handle?
-No. -No?
-Not if it keeps going to five minutes.
[laughs]
€8 to visit on your own.
€12 if you want to join a tour.
We're going on our own.
And there's also a line. [laughs]
Here, baby, guide us.
Guide us, you're better with maps than I am.
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This is Quinta da Regaleira.
There's a house, a mansion, down there,
but everybody comes here to see the garden.
It's probably the most unique garden in the world.
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-Oh, Poço Inicia...
-Yeah, Iniciático.
This is what we want, the initiatic well.
Oh, wow!
Interesting!
Ta-da!
[laughs]
Are you in a rush? You're excited now?
[laughs]
You want to get there before me?
Do you know what's here? -Yeah, initiation well.
-It's related to Freemasonry.
Ooh!
Oh, my God!
Oh, my God [in Portuguese]
This well is also known as the inverted tower.
It was used in the initiation ritual in the Templar Masonry.
-Oh. -Woman: Keep walking, please.
Keep walking, please. [in Portuguese]
It's getting dark.
[laughs]
You even feel kind of afraid here.
Here, one of the many symbols of the Templar Masonry,
the octagon.
You go down the entire well,
and then you end up in a tunnel.
This is so creative.
This was probably a secret passage, somehow.
It's actually almost like a labyrinth down here.
And the meaning goes deeper:
you need to go through darkness to reach light.
Look at how you got to cross!
[laughs] Look at this.
It actually represents you're walking on water, like Jesus Christ
This place is so different.
-Should we just walk down?
-I guess. If we're all the way up here, right?
Yeah, let's walk down.
It is a really, really big garden.
Look at all this.
The various locations are designed to help you reach spiritual enlightment
Baby, I want to go to the Fount of Abundance.
That would be good, huh?
I'm full of abundance.
-Are you full? -I'm full of...
-I'm abundant and full. -[laughs]
Something we're missing here.
There is symbolism here, actually, everywhere.
-Yeah. -And we're not knowing how to decipher.
-How do you know I didn't decipher it all?
-Oh, so you didn't tell me.
What have you deciphered yet?
The idea behind this whole garden is to be symbolic and enigmatic.
There are various symbols here everywhere in the designs
that we don't know how to identify them or to read them.
A lot of freemasonry symbols here as well.
So here it is!
May the fountain of abundance bring us an abundant life.
In terms of design and architecture,
Quinta da Regaleira also represents the romanticism of the 19th century,
but the owner and the architect expressed themselves
in a totally different way,
compared to Pena Palace that we saw earlier.
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This is the street where we came from.
Quinta da Regaleira, what a fantastic garden.
-Right here. -The house? Yeah, let's go.
-Can we go up here? -I think you'll go from up here.
Wow, what a nice view of the castle here.
Remember I told you about Camões? He wrote a very famous book.
It's called Os Lusíadas, right?
The owner of this house was so rich,
that he sponsored a pocket edition of the book.
This was the most famous book written by Camões.
We saw his tomb in the Belém video.
António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro.
The owner was Brazilian.
We arrived here at 8:20 in the morning. It's now 5:30.
So this goes to show you how much you can actually do here
in one day if you arrive early.
Sintra is a tourist destination.
A lot of people come here, especially during summer.
We visited three attractions with time,
as we take much longer than a regular person as we film everything.
We could even go to a fourth attraction,
maybe the palace, Sintra Palace,
but we're too tired, so we're just going back to Lisbon.
I hope you enjoyed this series here in Portugal.
If this is the first video you see, click on the playlist here.
There are lots of videos in Lisbon.
And I'll be back to show more of Portugal.
It's a really beautiful country.
Stay tuned for a new adventure and subscribe to the channel.
Let's keep in touch.
Guns 'n Roses!
[laughs]
No, that actually stands for 'Guarda Nacional Republicana'
or Republican National Guard.
-Brazilian? -I am.
-I'm also here with her, if you guys want to come, okay?
-What's up? Are you a guide?
-Yes! Do you want to come?
-No. I'm not a guide.
-But do you want to join us? Toni is here for you.
-Ah, thank you! We already got a fully planned day.
I can't thank you enough.
-It's one castle, 5 palaces, there are the beaches...
-You should go to Alentejo.
-Bye, thank you. Have a nice day.
-Bye. -Bye.