🪨 – Located just outside Sintra, these collective burial tombs (Tholos-type) reveal how Bronze Age communities honored their dead, with artifacts like polished daggers and ceramic vessels.

Perched on the dramatic cliffs of the , the Bronze Age (c. 2000–800 BC) left behind mysterious remnants that are often overshadowed by the Romanticist palaces. Here’s what to look for:

🌊 – Sintra’s Bronze Age wasn’t isolated. It was part of a maritime network linking Brittany, Cornwall, and Iberia. Local metalworkers produced V-perforated buttons and palmela points (arrowheads) found across the region.

Before the colorful Pena Palace, before the Moors, and before the Knights Templar, Sintra was already sacred.

Sintra isn’t just a fairytale village. It’s a timeline carved in stone.

✨ – While the great dolmens (like Anta de Adrenunes ) date earlier (Neolithic), they remained in use and were reinterpreted during the Bronze Age as ritual landmarks.