Is it Real, or is it Escher?
March 15, 2026
At the Pena Palace in Sintra, it takes more than a quick glance to be sure it’s not one of M.C. Escher’s impossible perspectives
At the Pena Palace in Sintra, it takes more than a quick glance to be sure it’s not one of M.C. Escher’s impossible perspectives
At Portugal’s Pena Palace, an unusual dinner seating arraangment for lesser nobles
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.
At the Pena Palace in Sintra, it takes more than a quick glance to be sure it’s not one of
At Portugal’s Pena Palace, an unusual dinner seating arraangment for lesser nobles
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.