Top 5 Things to Visit in Mafra
West of Lisbon
Five reasons to visit one of Europe's largest royal palaces, just outside Lisbon.
Mafra is a small town 40 minutes north-west of Lisbon, built around one of the most ambitious royal projects in Portuguese history: an 18th-century palace, basilica and monastery complex covering close to 40,000 square metres. The site was made famous internationally by José Saramago's novel Baltasa