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Updated: June 14, 2025
We may justly say of it, 'Nullum sine nomine saxum. Far over the rising hills of the north bank rose shaggy Cintra, 'the most blessed spot in the habitable globe, with its memorious convent and its Moorish castle.
The simple boarding of the earlier roofs may well have led to the two wonderful ceilings at Cintra, those in the Sala dos Cysnes, and in the Sala dos Brazões or dos Escudos, but the idea of the many octagons in the Sala dos Cysnes may have come from some such roof as that at Caminha, when the octagons are so important a feature of the design.
Here they leap over the boulders: "Cool and clear, cool and clear, By shining shingle and foaming weir, Under the crag where the ouzel sings, And the ivied wall where the church-bell rings." Southey rapturously described the East Lyn Vale as the "finest spot, except Cintra and Arrabida, that I ever saw."
The Açores are held to have been a continuation of the mountains of Estrella, which join the sea coast beside the town of Cintra; and the Sierra Verde, or Green-mountains, which reach the coast, near the city of Sasin in the land of Cucu, or the island of Moudim in which Algarbe is situated, are supposed to have reached to Porto Santo and Madeira.
Capitals very like those in the nave of the Marvilla, but with a ring of leaves instead of flutes, are found in the cloister of the church at Penha Longa near Cintra, and in the little round chapel at Penha Verde not far off, where lies the heart of Dom João de Castro, fourth viceroy of India.
'It seems proved beyond any manner of doubt that my mother paid the passage of a woman and a little boy to go there in the very month and in the year that my brother was supposed to have died, and Cintra or Lisbon are the last places where there is even the vaguest evidence of her having been seen with two boys.
Most of the original windows for those on the main front have been replaced by plain square openings are even more Eastern than those at Cintra. They are nearly all of two lights there is one of a single light in the passage but are without the square framing. Each window has three very slender white marble shafts, with capitals and with abaci moulded on each side.
Piedro de Cintra, having determined to proceed no farther, returned back to Portugal from Cape Misarado, to which he had traced the coast of Africa from the Rio Grande.
It was a curious fancy to pave it in such a way as to make it look like the waves of the sea, perpetually moving; and it must be a severe trial to the peripatetic powers of those who have not quite recovered their sea legs. Saturday, May 19th. We were off early; it was a lovely day, and we had a pleasant drive to Cintra.
If, in a civil officer, the inferior differs materially from the superior, he ought to resign, but in military appointments, it is the duty of the inferior officer to assist his commander in the mode in which that commander may deem his services most advantageous. Defence of his conduct with regard to the Convention of Cintra. House of Commons, Feb. 21, 1809.
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