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A nine-room 19th-century palace hotel in Sintra, restored by a marble family, set in large gardens with a heated pool and views to the Moorish castle.
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Need To Know
- Nine rooms and suites, six rooms and three suites, across two buildings, each individually designed
- A late-19th-century palace, restored by a marble family and opened in 2017
- Set in 14,000 sq m of gardens with a heated outdoor pool and views to the Moorish castle
- A welcome drink, traditional liqueur and pastries, and daily-replenished tea and coffee in the room
- Restaurant, bar and room service; parking; air conditioning; some step-free access
- On the edge of Sintra town, a 7-minute walk from the centre; about 30 minutes from Lisbon airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The size — just nine rooms and suites across two buildings, each individually designed, which makes the Palace feel less like a hotel than a grand private house you have largely to yourself.
- The gardens — some 14,000 square metres of them, with quiet corners, birdsong and a heated outdoor pool, and views up to the Palácio Nacional de Sintra and the Moorish castle on the hill.
- The marble — a thread through the house, in the rooms and the bathrooms, from the family behind the hotel who have worked the famous Portuguese stone for generations.
- The location — on the edge of Sintra town within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, a seven-minute walk from the historic centre and its palaces, yet quiet and green at the door.
- The welcome — a glass on arrival, traditional liqueur and pastries in the room, daily-replenished tea and coffee, and the easy charm of a small, family-run house.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Sintra Marmòris Palace
€198.10 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Avenida Barão de Almeida Santos, 7, Sintra, 2710-525, Portugal.
Travel Info
Sintra Marmòris Palace stands on the edge of Sintra town within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, a seven-minute walk from the historic centre and its palaces. Lisbon airport is about 30 minutes by car; parking is available, and a car helps for exploring the wider park and coast.
Nearby Places
Arrive by plane to Lisbon Airpot (LIS) and then take a 30-minute car ride (taxi or rental car) to the hotel.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-11
Expert Review
Origins
Sintra has drawn romantics for centuries — a green, misted hill above the Lisbon plain, crowned with palaces and the ruined Moorish castle, that Byron called a glorious Eden. Sintra Marmòris Palace sits on the edge of the town, within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, in fourteen thousand square metres of gardens, a short walk from the historic centre but quiet and wooded at its own door.
The house is a palacete — a small palace — designed and built at the end of the nineteenth century, in the Romantic style that defines Sintra's great houses. A century on it was carefully restored, by a Portuguese family with several generations in the marble trade, and opened as a hotel in 2017. Their material runs quietly through the house: marble in the rooms and the bathrooms, set among dark wood and period detail, a thread that ties the Palace to its sister hotels in the family's small group.
What it offers is intimacy. There are just nine rooms and suites, each individually designed, spread across two buildings in the grounds — so the place feels less like a hotel than a grand private home, with a heated outdoor pool among the gardens, views up to the Palácio Nacional de Sintra and the castle on the hill, and the hush of the park around. It is a small, family-run house in one of the loveliest settings in Portugal, made for those who want Sintra's magic with a door that closes quietly behind them.
Top Secret
Take a wander into the gardens and look for the hidden lounger tucked among the planting — a single quiet seat with a sweeping view over the park and up to the castle, the kind of spot the hotel does not advertise but where you could lose an afternoon with a book. With only nine rooms, the gardens are rarely busy, and at the right hour you may have the view entirely to yourself.
The Review
Sintra Marmòris Palace is a small jewel in a town full of grand ones. A nineteenth-century palacete on the edge of Sintra, within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, it was restored by a family long in the Portuguese marble trade and opened in 2017 as an intimate hotel of just nine rooms. The setting does much of the work — fourteen thousand square metres of gardens, a heated pool, and views up to the Palácio Nacional de Sintra and the Moorish castle on its crag — but the size is the point: with so few rooms, the Palace feels like a private house lent to you for a few days.
The rooms carry the family's signature in marble and dark wood, period furniture and quiet luxury, each one different. There is a restaurant and bar, room service, and a welcome of liqueur and pastries, but the real pleasures are the garden, the pool and the calm. The historic centre, with its palaces and the famous Quinta da Regaleira, is a seven-minute walk; the wider park, the coast at Cascais and Lisbon itself are all within easy reach by car.
It suits couples and romantics who want Sintra at its most charming and a hotel small enough to feel personal — a grand little house with gardens and a view, rather than a full-service resort. For those who prize intimacy, history and a magical setting over spas and scale, and who want to walk to Sintra's wonders from a quiet green base, it is hard to better in the town.
