Re: Suggestions for Spain Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca, please?
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for Spain Portugal, Madeira and Mallorca, please?
- From: d* f*
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
Nancy,
I was travelling in Spain and Portugal earlier this
summer, and would highly recommend going to Sintra,
just outside of Lisbon, if you are not already seeing
the area as part of your tour. The lushness of the
landscape, gardens and all the palaces make it a
fantastic area to visit, and even though the gardens
of the Palacio Nacional da Pena are not that well
maintained, the setting of this Disneylandesque style
palace adjacent to the much older Castelo dos Mouros,
and the town of Sintra itself, are all worth seeing.
In Spain, especially if you are going to be in
southern Spain/Andalucia, you should definitely see
The Real Alcozaba in Seville, the Alhambra and
Generalife in Granada, and Cordoba. These three
cities have some of the best remaining Islamic Gardens
in all of Spain.
- Nick Turland <nturland@lehmann.mobot.org> wrote:
> > I am taking a monthlong trip to Spain, Portugal,
> Madeira and Mallorca. and
> > will be with a tour most of that time but would
> like to plan an extension
> > for another week.
> >
> > If you have any suggestions of where to stay in
> Madeira or Mallorca
> > and/or gardens to see in Spain, Portugal, Madeira
> and Mallorca,
> > I would be most appreciative.
>
> Nancy,
>
> When you go to Madeira, do try to drive along the
> north coast road. It's a
> bit like Highway 1 near Big Sur but steeper and
> wetter, with waterfalls,
> ravines, tunnels, vertical cliffs, ocean, etc. Lots
> of interesting endemic plant
> life too. I can't reliably recommend any place to
> stay, as it was 11 years ago
> when I was last there, but Porto do Moniz, in the NW
> corner, is (was?) a
> tiny, charming town with a hotel called the "Orca."
>
> (BTW, for others reading who may not know, Big Sur
> is a wild area on the
> California coast between San Francisco and Los
> Angeles)
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nick Turland
> Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
> P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
> E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
> Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
> MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
> FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
>
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