Adult
Live availability
Ages 18–64
€34
- Pena Palace + Park entry
- Skip-the-line priority queue
- 5-minute audio history sent before your visit
Step inside Portugal's most magical palace
Pena Palace + Park grounds, skip-the-line. Just 25 priority entries per 30-minute slot — we handle the booking.
See ticket options- UNESCO Sintra cultural landscape
- 19th C. Europe's first Romantic palace
- 200 ha Palace + forest grounds
- 25 people per 30-min slot
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Youth
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Ages 6–17
€32
- Pena Palace + Park entry
- Skip-the-line priority queue
- 5-minute audio history sent before your visit
Senior
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Ages 65+
€32
- Pena Palace + Park entry
- Skip-the-line priority queue
- 5-minute audio history sent before your visit
Family
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2 adults + 2 youths
€132 €115 Save €17
- Pena Palace + Park entry for 4
- Skip-the-line priority queue
- 5-minute audio history sent before your visit
- Save €17 vs buying separately
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Dublin, Ireland
“Booked at 9pm the night before — tickets in my inbox by midnight. Walked in, scanned the QR, skipped a queue that was already 40 deep at 10am.”
Stockholm, Sweden
“We had to change our date twice because of rain forecasts. The team replied in two hours each time and reissued the QR. That's real service.”
Sydney, Australia
“The tip about arriving 20 minutes before our slot was gold — we got the shuttle first, then had the upper terrace almost to ourselves.”
5-minute audio guide
Your Pena Palace 5-minute guide
Hand-written, narrated by a heritage host, sent to every customer the day before their visit. Five minutes of background that turns the photo into a story — Ferdinand the Second, the bridge engineer who designed it, why the colours, why the onion domes, what to look for inside.
Included with your booking — your full guide arrives with your ticket.Get your guide
- Why Ferdinand built it — and the German engineer who got the job
- How the canary-yellow palette was lost, then restored in 1994
- The Cruz Alta and the Edla chalet — what most visitors miss
- Best time of day to be inside the palace
Included free with every ticket. No app, no download — plays in any browser.
About Pena Palace
Pena Palace is the 19th-century royal summer residence perched on a forested hill above Sintra, 530 metres above the Atlantic. Its painter-bright yellow and red towers, Manueline cloisters, and Moorish battlements make it one of the most photographed buildings in Europe — and the first of the great Romantic palaces of the era.
Inside, the royal apartments are preserved almost exactly as the last Portuguese royal family left them in 1910: copper cookware in the kitchens, family photographs on bedside tables, monogrammed linen in the wardrobes.
The 200-hectare park surrounding the palace is a forest of camellias, giant ferns, and hidden follies. Most visitors spend 3–4 hours here in total.
“The whole thing was handled by email in under an hour. We walked straight past a queue of maybe 200 people. Worth every euro.”
Practical information
- Opening hours
- Daily 09:30 – 18:30 (last entry 17:30). Closed 25 December and 1 January.
- Address
- Estrada da Pena, 2710-609 Sintra, Portugal
- Getting there
- Train from Lisbon Rossio to Sintra (40 min). From Sintra station, bus 434 runs to the palace every 15 minutes.
- Accessibility
- Park paths are cobbled and hilly. A shuttle (€3) runs from the gate to the palace entrance. Inside, ground-floor rooms are accessible; upper apartments require stairs.
- Bag policy
- Small bags allowed. Large backpacks must be checked at the entrance — free.
- Photography
- Permitted everywhere except inside the royal apartments.
About our service
Pena Palace Tickets acts as a facilitator to assist international visitors in purchasing skip-the-line tickets directly from the site authority, the official operator. We do not resell tickets — we provide a personalised booking and support service in your own language. Our concierge service fee is included in the displayed price. For those who prefer to purchase directly, the official ticket site is parquesdesintra.pt.
Plan your visit
Practical guides written by our concierge team
The Best Time to Visit Pena Palace in Sintra
A month-by-month guide to crowds, weather, light and the Sintra microclimate that shapes every visit to the Palácio Nacional da Pena.
How to Get to Pena Palace from Lisbon
Every realistic transport option from central Lisbon to the gates of the Palácio Nacional da Pena, with timings, transfer points and the bus 434 loop explained.
Pena Palace vs Quinta da Regaleira: Which Should You Choose?
A side-by-side concierge comparison of Sintra's two most-visited monuments — different centuries, different patrons, different moods — and how to choose if you only have one day.
Frequently asked
What's included in the skip-the-line ticket?
Entry to both the Pena Palace interior and the surrounding 200-hectare park, with priority queue access at the palace entrance. Your 30-minute time slot is reserved before you arrive.
When should I arrive?
10–15 minutes before your booked slot. Arriving earlier is fine, but you won't be let in before your time — and the slot is strict, so arriving late can mean waiting for the next available entry.
What if it rains?
Pena is open in all weathers and most visitors find misty or rainy days atmospheric. Refunds are not available for weather. If a rare closure is announced by the operator, we refund in full.
Can I change my date or time?
Once booked, slots are non-transferable and non-refundable. If you need to change, contact us at bookings@palaciopena.com — we'll help where we can, but cannot guarantee a new slot, especially in peak season.
How long is a typical visit?
Allow 3–4 hours in total: 45–60 minutes inside the palace, 90+ minutes in the park, plus travel to and from the gate.
Is it suitable for children?
Yes — kids generally love the fairytale exterior, the dungeons, and the cannons. Strollers are tough on the cobbles; a shuttle from the gate helps.
Is the palace wheelchair-accessible?
Partially. The park and ground-floor rooms are accessible via shuttle and ramps. The upper royal apartments require stairs and have no lift.
What's your refund policy?
Tickets are issued for a specific date and are non-transferable once issued. If your plans change, reply to your confirmation email at least 48 hours before your date and we will rebook your visit to any open slot in the operator's calendar.
What is the Pena Palace?
The Pena Palace (Palácio Nacional da Pena) is a 19th-century Romanticist palace standing on a wooded hilltop above the town of Sintra in Portugal. It was built for King Ferdinand II from the 1840s on the ruins of a Hieronymite monastery that had been wrecked by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and was largely completed by 1854. The palace is famous for its vivid colours and deliberately eclectic design, which blends Neo-Gothic, Neo-Manueline, Neo-Moorish and Neo-Renaissance elements into a single fairy-tale silhouette. Its highlights include the red and yellow terraces with sweeping views over the Serra de Sintra, the allegorical Triton gateway, the preserved cloister and rooms of the former monastery, and the richly furnished royal interiors. The palace stands within the vast forested Park of Pena and forms part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is counted among the Seven Wonders of Portugal.
How do I get to the Pena Palace?
The Pena Palace sits above the town of Sintra, around 30 kilometres north-west of Lisbon. The easiest approach is by train: frequent services run from Lisbon's Rossio station to Sintra in roughly 40 minutes, and from Sintra station the circular 434 tourist bus climbs the hill to the palace, also calling at the Moorish Castle on the way. The bus takes about 15 minutes, though queues can be long in peak season. Energetic visitors can instead walk up through the Park of Pena, a steep climb of some 30 to 40 minutes from the historic centre. By car, Pena is roughly 40 minutes from Lisbon, but parking near the entrance is very limited and the narrow hillside roads become congested in summer. From the main gate there is a further uphill walk, or a short shuttle, to reach the palace doors themselves.