Romantic Sintra, a photo from Lisboa, South

Photographer's Note

If you go to Lisbon please don't mis a visit to Sintra. Sintra is a city about 30 km from Lisbon build on the hills. The palaces, egetation and culture are so many and o diferent that one day visiting is not enough.

This is Monserrate, one of the most beutiful palaces at Sintra/ The gardens are also incredible with vegetation from all over the world.

The designer of this little romantic palace was James Knowles Jr. and it was built in 1858 on the initiative of Francis Cook, Viscount Monserrate, being one of the most interesting examples of Sintra Romanticism. A work in the Romantic-Orientalist spirit, with its great circular tower, bulbous cupolas and exotic decoration, the building recalls in particular the famous Brighton Pavilion of Nash, and English Romantic architecture.

However, as José Augusto França says, "Monserrate has a somewhat different scenographic sense, based on a greater wealth of archaeological details", constituted by its inspirational roots which - via English sources - are grafted on to the Moghul architecture. A unique case of Romanticism in Portugal.

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tober, vasilpro, asajernigan, Cretense, ikeharel, Charo, siolaw, bobocortis, ruisc_pt, jlbrthnn, danos ha contrassegnato questa nota come utile

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tober (8797) 2010-10-11 11:37

Hi Kikks, I visited Monserrate Gardens for twice. Really a nice and romantic place to have a stroll through the sub-tropical species of the garden. I have a same photo, from more or les the same vantage point. Yours is beautiful and more updated. Best regards, Tolga

vasilpro (41801) 2010-10-11 14:59

Hello Kik,
Wonderful composition, interesting architecture, excellent light management and contrast, lovely colors, beautiful atmosphere, very nice POV.
Have a nice evening, Vasilis.

asajernigan (21427) 2010-10-11 18:45

Kik,
The architecture is great here and you have presented from a fine POV. The low POV gives the shot a nice upward view placing the structure against the deep blue sky. The lighting and colors are fine and the photo has excellent sharpness.
TFS,
Asa

Cretense (68709) 2010-10-12 4:25

Hello Kiks!

Wow, what a magnificent building, excellent architecture photo! Great POV, great framing and composition! Perfect light management, wonderful colours, excellent definition!

Hercules

janusz2054 (2) 2010-10-13 12:35

Hi Kik,
Very interesting architecture.
Splendid pictures, lovely colors good presentation.
Best regards
Janusz

ikeharel (112397) 2010-10-14 8:15

Great photo of one from 5 Sintra palaces, Kik.
While I was there last week it was poring rain - and it was impossiblle to see much ( so I'll to go again...).
Good color's compo. and fine POV.
Regards
Ike

Silvio1953 (220525) 2010-10-16 12:58

Ciao Kik, great POV on fantastic architecture, lovely composition with excellent clarity, wonderful light and splendid colors, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio

jmdias (114220) 2010-10-16 15:57

kik

I visited sintra many times, since I was a child, but I never knew this palace. very nice view of its details, perfect light, colors and sharpness. TFS

hugs

jorge

Charo (51290) 2010-10-18 16:19

Hallo Kik,
Ik heb veel foto's van Sintra, maar niemand met dit perspectief.
De plaats is zeker een mooie en fantastische architectuur.
Uitstekende vooruitzichten met een zeer goed licht en een uitstekende kleur en detail.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Charo

siolaw (38294) 2010-10-18 21:00

hi Kik
An interesting mix of styles in this wonderful palace! The good light gave peasant colours. Framing and POV are fine.
Greetings
Laurent

hay_kes (31439) 2010-10-18 22:38

Hi Kik,
Very beautifularchitectural view and an excellent POV, colours and perspective.TFS.
Cheers,

hAyAti

bobocortis (16090) 2010-10-19 1:12

Hello Kik.
A well composed shot, taken from a well-chosen pov.
Very well balanced picture, where full and empty spaces occupe each one an half of shot.
Best regards.
Bobo.

ruisc_pt (11584) 2010-10-19 10:45

Impressive POV and composition.
I like the way you brought this famous MOnserrate palce in Sintra.
TFS
R

jlbrthnn (76043) 2010-10-19 14:37

Good evening Kik,
The architecture of this palate is almost Eastern. The colors are superb. I particularly like the low-angle shot which gives a certain nobility to the building. The photograph is luminous and of excellent quality. Cheer.
Have a good evening
Cordially
Joël

danos (110407) 2010-10-20 9:02

Hi Kiks,
in the last days i have seen a lot of TE members that upload photos from this city of Portugal and i can say that almost all of them are fascinating like this one.I like the POV of the palace with the contrast of the colours to be superb.I like the created perspective as the brilliant light of the scene.Well done.

Regards,Danos

cornejo (61504) 2010-10-24 4:49

Greeting Kik, very nice photo and good shot, very good work, congratulation.

iainsp (3298) 2010-11-04 12:18

Greetings Kiks,

Love this shot - having lived in Brighton for 5 years, I can appreciate the similarities and the differences. Clearly there is more use of colour here, which may reflect a mediterranean expectation for sun to show off the colours.

A beautiful shot - with the dark green tree on the lift providing a wonderful frame for your work - and the colour management on the building and sky behind it is excellent.

A family story about Sintra: when I was about 10 years old, we lived in Oerias, on the outskirts of Lisbon for a year. When the obligatory trip to Sintra finally came up, my mum "knew" of this wonderful shortcut. Four hours later (during which time we may well have crossed in to Spain) we finally completed the 30 km journey. "Shortcut to Sintra" is now family shorthand for something that takes a little bit longer than originally expected or for an idea that sounded really good at the time, but ...

regards, thanks, Iain

Photo Information

Copyright: kik ko (kiks) (12805)
Genre: Luoghi
Medium: Colore
Date Taken: 2010-07-18
Categories: Architettura
Camera: Nikon D60, Nikon AF-S DX VR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G, Cokin Circular Polarizer
Esposizione: f/9.0, 1/250 secondi
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Versione Foto: Versione Originale
Tema(i): Romantic Sintra, Polarized photos [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2010-10-11 11:28