A short distance from Lisbon, in the town that gave it its name, stands a palace that seems to have drifted straight out of eighteenth-century France and settled improbably on
High on a wooded crag above the town of Sintra, wrapped for much of the year in the mists that roll off the Atlantic, stands one of the most extraordinary
High in the pine-clad foothills of the Guadarrama mountains, above the city of Segovia and far from the dust of Madrid, an aging king built himself a mountain paradise meant
Rising above the western edge of old Madrid, its long pale facade looking out across a great paved square, stands the largest royal palace in Western Europe. The Royal Palace