Identifier: lisboncintrawith00inch (find matches)
Title: Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Inchbold, A Inchbold, Stanley
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Portugal Lisbon (Portugal) -- Description and travel Sintra (Portugal) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ne era held in the old palace;those evenings renowned for their display of genius,sparkling wit and gaiety, when Gil Vicente, the initiatorof the Portuguese theatre, rehearsed his dramas, hisdaughter Paula discoursed sweet music, BernardimRibeiro recited his love lyrics, and the ladies of the court,one emulated the other, in improvising dialogue in verse;those evenings to which Sa de Miranda—the father ofPortuguese poetry—referred when he had retired fromthe life of the court in Lisbon and Cintra to his leafyquinta in the Minho: Os momos e scroes de Portugal Tiio fiillados no monde onde sao idos? Where are they gone, he asks; in a word, where are thesnows of yester year? In the mention of Gil Vicente weare reminded how he compared Cintra to a sweet,brave and courteous lady, surrounded by the Loves andadored of Spring, West of the town on the roadside, overhung by abun-dant foliage, is the ancient Fountain dos Pisoes, whichderives its name, say some archaeologists, from a Roman 148
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The Seteais Palace family, and others from mills which were worked by thewater descending the serra to the deep valley below. Justbeyond, in a rugged cleft of the hillside, a silvery water-fall reveals itself between luscious greenery of ferns,shrubs and tall palm trees. On the other side we gaze intoa deeply ensconced garden of exuberant exotic cult with asmall lake, and winding paths of sweet, alluring seclusion.It is the quinta called the Relogio (from a clock that oncedecked tower or villa) where the present King and Queen,then the Duke and Duchess of Braganza, spent theirhoneymoon. The name of Monte Christo is also attachedto this quinta and a park stretching far over the mountainside, but I failed to discover whether this name was con-nected with the wealthy proprietor, Pinto da Fouseca,popularly nicknamed Monte Christo, who once boughtthe ancient palace of the Lisbon Patriarchs near Belem.Through a winding lane bordered by the foliage-over-hung walls of modern and older mansion

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