The town constitutes three Miguel, São Martinho, and São Pedro de Pennaferrim) and is within the much larger Sintra An area of former royal summer residence, Sintra possesses a beauty that was celebrated by Lord Byron in his poem Childe Harold’s Sintra was designated a in 1995. On one the of mountain peaks is the. a 16th-century monastery and partly an imitation of a by her young German On the extensive grounds of the castle, Ferdinand created the Parque da Pena, a series of the park is throug out the incorporates natural elements in adapting to the area’s rugged terrain rather than reshaping it.in the old-town of the Sintra Although damaged in the earthquake in 1755 the palace it was restored in 21st century more than 400,000 tourists visited to the painstakingly restored. World Heritage site, any of various areas or objects inscribed on the The sites are designated as having “outstanding universal value” under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Designating World Heritage sites
this are cultural, natural, and mixe types of sites.. Natural heritage sites are restricted to those natural areas that 1)provide excellent examples of ongoing ecological and biological evolutionary processes,2) furnish outstanding examples of Earth’s record of life or its geologic processes,3) furnish habitats for rare or endangered animals or plants or are sites of exceptional biodiversity. The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List is roughly 3 to 1 Several new sites are added to the list The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage at the middle of each year.
The Nubian preservation campaign
