We had a private tour set up by another passenger for a group of 9 of us. We spent most of our time outside of Lisbon, going to two seaside villages (Estoril and Cascais) and to a mountain village (Sintra). We then visited some places inside of Lisbon.
Estoril is where Ian Fleming started writing his James Bond stories. Cascais at one time had the King of England and the King of Italy both living here.
Sintra is in the mountains, so the temperatures were typically 18 degrees cooler than in Lisbon, so many of the royalty had their summer home here. Sintra has 3 palaces, so we visited one of them. It has the first hotel built in Portugal, demonstrating how tourism has been important here.
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