Lord Byron - Cantina Lord Byron - Sintra, Portugal - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

At the side of Cantino do Lord Byron in Sintra hangs a bronze plaque on the wall with a 'picture' of Lord Byron and the quote:

"Sintra is one of those places with a magical atmosphere. High in the hills on a strategic location it was conquered by Moors and Christians. Lord Byron called it Glorious Sintra. Luís Camões, Portugal’s epic poet and writer, read his Lusiadas from the castle. Kings and Queens spent their summers here and retreated from here."
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"Of all the words spoken and sung about Sintra, poet George Gordon Noel Byron’s had the most lasting effect. When he put this flowering mountain town in “Childe Harold” he put Sintra on the map. “Glorious Eden,” he called the city.
Wherever he stayed Byron was taken with Sintra. He wrote his mother: “Sintra . . . contains beauties of every description, natural and artificial. Palaces and gardens rising in the midst of rocks, cataracts and precipices; convents on stupendous heights, a distant view of the sea and the Tagus.”
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FOLLOW LORD BYRON TO SINTRA’S ‘GARDEN OF EDEN’
The Romantic poet Byron is regarded as one of the greatest English poets and travelled extensively. His poems are often quoted from differing parts of Europe but Sintra appeared to have a special place in Byron’s heart.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era.

From Portugal, Byron wrote a letter to his friend Mr. Hodgson in which he describes his mastery of the Portuguese language, but which seem to consist mainly of swearing and insults. Byron particularly enjoyed his stay in Sintra that is described in his poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage as “glorious Eden”.
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Address: R. Ferraria 1, 2710-555 Sintra, Portugal Website: Not listed

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