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CENTRO DE PORTUGAL

The most interesting Parks and Public Gardens in Central Portugal

  • Estufa Fria
  • Jardim Botânico de Lisboa
  • Jardim-Museu Agrícola Nacional
  • Palácio Fronteira
  • Palácio de Queluz
  • Quinta da Regaleira
  • Monserrate
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This park went through brief periods of glory and many more of neglect, before being bought by the Portuguese Government in 1947. Until then it was, without doubt, most influenced by its English owners.

In the XVI Century, the park passed from a religious order in Lisbon to its new owners, Geraed de Visne, who finished the house, and William Beckford who created the garden and laid out the main paths that are still there today. But Monserrate was abandoned once again when they returned to England. Its deterioration must have been exacerbated by French troops who installed themselves there, calling forth the comment from Byron in 1811, as being the most desolate mansion in the most beautiful place I have ever seen.

The rebirth of the estate came about through its next owner, Sir Francis Cook, who bought it in the middle of the XIX century. Cook rebuilt the house, and asked William Neville of Kew Gardens in London, to choose a collection of exotic plants. From this beginning grew a garden that at one time had up to 3000 different kinds of plants, varying from giant ferns, cypresses and wetland species, to bamboo, thousands of flowers and a large number of palm trees. As well as all this, bushes and shrubs around and there are woods of autochthonous oak and chestnut trees. The creation of different gardens that represented far-flung parts of the world, like Mexico, Australia and Japan, was made possible by the diverse micro-clilmate that the park enjoyed.

Today, as a result of all this activity, we can wander at will through a variegated and multicoloured vegetation, emerging from areas that are humid, dense and dark into lighter, more open spaces, able to travel the world through the plants we discover on our way. It is an opportunity to walk, to meditate or to play.

In 1995 Quinta da Monserrate was inscribed, along with the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, as part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage. Since 2000 the public company Parques de Sintra is undertaking the restoration of the Palace and the maintenance of the gardens.

  • Rampa do Castelo. 271045 Sintra.

    info@parquesdesintra.pt

    www.parquesdesintra.pt

    Teléfono: +351 21 9237300

  •  1000000 m²

List of palms and cycads found in this garden
Palms in Monserrate
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Archontophoenix cunninghamiana

Brahea armata

Butia capitata

Chamaedorea costaricana

Chamaerops humilis

Howea belmoreana

Howea forsteriana

Jubaea chilensis

Livistona australis

Livistona chinensis

Phoenix canariensis

Phoenix dactylifera

Phoenix reclinata

Rhapis excelsa

Rhopalostylis sapida

Sabal minor

Sabal palmetto

Syagrus romanzoffiana

Trachycarpus fortunei

Trithrinax brasiliensis

Washingtonia filifera

Washingtonia robusta

Ceratozamia mexicana

Cycas circinalis

Cycas revoluta

Dioon edule

Encephalartos sp.

Rhopalostylis baueri

Sabal sp.

Zamia furfuracea

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