Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . The Palace ofPena Senhora, who once appeared on the site according to thelegend, and her image was worshipped there for manyyears under the title of Our Lady of the Rock (da Penha).The hermitage retains the memory of a visit paid to it byD. Joao II and his Queen in the fifteenth century, when foreleven days the royal couple and retinue dwelt in tentsround the chapel, and then returned to the palace atCintra. Many a time his successor, D. Manuel, mountedto the same spot, and from a window of the hermitageplung
Lisbon & Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal . The Palace ofPena Senhora, who once appeared on the site according to thelegend, and her image was worshipped there for manyyears under the title of Our Lady of the Rock (da Penha).The hermitage retains the memory of a visit paid to it byD. Joao II and his Queen in the fifteenth century, when foreleven days the royal couple and retinue dwelt in tentsround the chapel, and then returned to the palace atCintra. Many a time his successor, D. Manuel, mountedto the same spot, and from a window of the hermitageplunged his gaze into the far horizon of the sea, searchingfor the sails of the galleons which he had sent to the the news of Vasco da Gamas approach was broughtto him, he was at Cintra, and remembering later the strainof his outlook from the Pena height, and the relief anddelight with which he welcomed the good news, heerectedonthe site of thehumblefourteenth-centuryhermi-tage a monastery built of wood, causing at the same timethe summit of the hill to be levelled to a broad
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