{"id":48,"date":"2008-04-02T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/2008\/04\/convento-dos-capuchos-in-sintra.html"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T09:20:24","slug":"convento-dos-capuchos-sintra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/2008\/04\/convento-dos-capuchos-sintra.html","title":{"rendered":"Convento dos Capuchos in Sintra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5pxx;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-wsOr_-R2gMs\/R-LtIdIMSZI\/AAAAAAAAAuc\/MmhaXQyk2RQ\/s640\/IMG_2011.JPG\" alt=\"Convento dos Capuchos in Sintra Portugal\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">Convento dos Capuchos<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Convento dos Capuchos<\/strong><br \/>\nAddress: Parque de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal<br \/>\nPhone: +351 219 237 300<\/p>\n<p>The Convento dos Capuchos in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/2008\/04\/sintra-day-trip-from-lisbon.html\">Sintra<\/a> is one of the most bizarre attractions the town has to offer.\u00a0Located deep in the woods of the Parque de Monserrate, the Convento is a hobbit-like building that was built in the 16th century as a Franciscan monastery.<\/p>\n<p>The architect purposely designed the Convento dos Capuchos to have low ceilings, narrow doorways, and small spaces.\u00a0The result is that visitors feel as if they&#8217;ve stepped into a magical world for tiny beings.<\/p>\n<p>The admission price for the Convento dos Capuchos is 5.00 euros for adults.\u00a0Concessions are available for students, children, and seniors. Special family tickets are also available.<\/p>\n<p>The opening hours for the Convento dos Capuchos are 9:30am to 8:00pm from March to mid-October, and 10:00am to 6:00pm from mid-October to February.<\/p>\n<p>The Convento dos Capuchos is difficult to get to by foot or public transport, so taking a taxi is the best option if you don&#8217;t have a car.\u00a0A taxi from Sintra&#8217;s visitor center to the Convento dos Capuchos will cost around 20 euros.\u00a0This price takes into account that the taxi waits for you while you visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convento dos Capuchos Convento dos Capuchos Address: Parque de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal Phone: +351 219 237 300 The Convento dos Capuchos in Sintra is one of the most bizarre attractions the town has to offer.\u00a0Located deep in the woods of the Parque de Monserrate, the Convento is a hobbit-like building that was built in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/2008\/04\/convento-dos-capuchos-sintra.html\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,84,18],"tags":[85,155,190,168],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portugal","category-sightseeing","category-sintra","tag-convento-dos-capuchos","tag-portugal","tag-sightseeing","tag-sintra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingeu.com\/western-europe\/portugal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}