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Sintra Planner
Pena Palace on its wooded hilltop above Sintra

Independent day-trip planner · Sintra, Portugal

Your Sintra day,
without the guesswork.

Pick the palaces you want to see. We turn them into a realistic day, hour by hour, with timed tickets, opening hours, steep walks and buses taken into account.

Plan my trip See an example day
  • Free, no sign-up
  • Realistic walking and bus times
  • Every opening time has a source

Photo: Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0

Plan your Sintra trip

About a minute. Only the length of your stay is required.

How long?

Optional. Add it to get the exact opening hours and closures.

Your day starts at Sintra train station.

What do you really want to see?Optional: we’ll pick the best

We always try to fit the places you add.

Not sure?Leave them all out and we’ll pick the best mix for your time.

Your pace
Getting around· Walk, buses & shuttles

Coming by car? We don’t plan driving routes in Sintra: private cars can’t go up to Pena or the Moorish Castle, and the historic centre is restricted to residents.

Example day

One day in Sintra, as the planner builds it

The default settings: arrive by train at 09:30, balanced pace, buses and walks, any date. Every time and connection here comes straight from the planner.

  • · Timed entries planned with a safety margin
  • · Lunch placed where you’ll actually be
  • · Directions for every step, ready on your phone
Open the full plan

Day 1

3 stops · back by 18:10

  1. 09:30Arrive at Sintra train station
  2. Bus 434 + Walk · 1 h 2 min
  3. 11:00The colourful towers of Pena Palace seen from a distancePena Palace & Park1 h 30 min visit · Pena & the hills
  4. 12:30Lunch · 1 h
  5. Walk + Bus 434 + Walk · 57 min
  6. 14:37The Gothic-style palace of Quinta da Regaleira among treesQuinta da Regaleira1 h 45 min visit · Historic centre
  7. Walk · 13 min
  8. 16:45The National Palace of Sintra with its two conical chimneysNational Palace of Sintra1 h visit · Historic centre
  9. Walk · 15 min

Ready-made itineraries

Sintra in 1, 2 or 3 days

All itineraries →

Built on rules, not a chatbot.

Every plan comes from the same rules and checked data. Ask for the same trip twice and you get the same plan, and when we don’t know something, we say so.

  • 01

    Realistic travel times

    Built from walking routes, bus lines and park shuttles, never from a straight line on a map. Uphill walks count as uphill.

  • 02

    Honest about limits

    If six palaces won’t fit in a relaxed day, we say so, explain why and show what would work instead.

  • 03

    Facts with a source

    Every opening time links to where it came from and when we checked it. Estimates are labelled as estimates.