Gumbo’s Pic of the Day. Sept. 8, 2013: Portuguese “Castle In The Sky”
September 8, 2013
Portugal’s answer to Bavaria’s fairy-tale castles (and to Disney!), the Pena Palace sits high on a mountaintop above the town of Sintra, and above the 10th-century Moorish Castle that guarded it. The palace was built in the second half of…