The Moorish Castle offers amazing views of Portugal's major downside - lack of pretty countryside,...

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...but that's soon forgotten in the excitement of approaching...

...more mad Manueline elaboration in the other Palacio, da Pena.

Photos: the extensive but hardly gripping view from Castelo dos Mouros; entrance to the Palacio Nacional da Pena; another more distant shot of the palace.

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