Pena Palace, Portugal

The National Palace of Pena constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th century Romanticism in Portugal. This National Monument was built by the initiative of D. Fernando of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, who married Queen Mary II, in 1836.  When visiting the Sintra Mountain range for the first time the future King Fernando II sighted the ruins of the old Convent of Frades Hieronimitas.  He ordered it to be reconstructed, into rock, in praise of Our Lady of Pena, donating it again to the Ordem dos Monges de S. Jer'nimo (a monks' order).