From 4 October dogs may enter the gardens of the National Palaces of Sintra and Queluz and the Capuchos Convent. Pena Park and Cabo da Roca stay closed to them.
Sintra is moving to make its spring traffic experiment permanent, keeping large tour coaches out of the historic village and creating dedicated bays for ride-hailing cars. Operators have already gone to court, but the town is betting a UNESCO landscape cannot be a postcard and a car park at once.
The Swedish power-tools group Husqvarna has confirmed that its stone-diamond-tools manufacturing operations in Rio de Mouro, Sintra — alongside companion sites in Belgium and Greece — walk into a closure window that completes by the end of 2026. The...
EMES sets a €4-up-to-4h tariff at Praia Grande and Praia das Maçãs from 1 June to 30 September. Residents, merchants and PRM exempt; PS, Chega, CDU and IL voted against and a 1,847-signature petition opposed it.
Sintra's municipality has eliminated exclusive parking zones for tuk-tuks and tourist vehicles, sparking protests from around 50 drivers who accuse the council of pricing them out. The crackdown reflects deepening overtourism tensions in a town that draws over 3 million visitors a year.
One of Portugal's most iconic luxury resorts has changed hands, signaling growing confidence among global investors in the country's high-end hospitality market — even as broader tourism trends show signs of cooling. The Penha Longa Resort in Sintra...
