beach
Praia da Adraga
A dramatic Atlantic beach hemmed by cliffs and rock formations, popular for its seafood restaurant.
2 km · about 5 min drive
Lisbon, Portugal · Europe
Colares works well as a base: 5 minutes from Azoia, 2km from Sintra–Cascais Coast Road (N247).
Colares is a town located in Lisbon, Portugal. With a population of 7,905, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Colares sits in Portugal, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Lisbon time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Colares to your route.
The Sintra-Cascais Natural Park is a park on the Portuguese Riviera, one of the 13 Natural Parks of Portugal. While only established in 1994 as a Natural Park by the Portuguese Government, it has been protected since 1981. With an area of approximately 145 km2. The park includes the Serra de Sintra Mountain Range butRead more
extends all the way to the coast and Cabo da Roca, continental Europe's westernmost point. It contains the Castle of the Moors. Located 25 km from Lisbon, the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park is a popular tourism area, with many different individual historic and natural attractions. Sintra and Cascais are towns and municipalities on the Lisbon / Estoril Coast.
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Colares is located in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe. The coordinates are 38.7992 latitude, -9.4469 longitude.
Colares has a population of approximately 7,905 people, making it a town in Portugal.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
beach
A dramatic Atlantic beach hemmed by cliffs and rock formations, popular for its seafood restaurant.
2 km · about 5 min drive
coastal drive
A wind-swept coastal drive past Cabo da Roca, wild beaches and the Sintra-Cascais natural park.
2 km · about 5 min drive
castle
Sintra's most exotic and least crowded palace: a Moorish-Gothic-Indian fantasy villa rebuilt in 1858 for Francis Cook, wrapped in botanical gardens with lawns, ferns, and Mexican and Japanese terraces. Byron praised the earlier ruin in Childe Harold.
2 km · about 5 min drive
beach
A wild, rugged beach reached by a steep path, dominated by towering sea stacks below Cabo da Roca.
3 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
A tiny cork-lined hermitage hidden in Sintra's forest, hauntingly austere and moss-covered.
3 km · about 5 min drive
castle
A mystical estate in Sintra featuring an initiatic well descending nine spiraling levels underground, surrounded by enchanted gardens.
4 km · about 10 min drive
castle
A colorful Romanticist palace atop a hill in Sintra, representing one of the finest examples of 19th-century Romanticism in the world.
5 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
UNESCO-listed fairy-tale town in the hills west of Lisbon with fantastical palaces, Moorish castle ruins, and lush gardens.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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