tower at entrance to Leda's Cave, Quinta da Regaleira

            The Quinta da Regaleira is the palace and surrounding four-hectare gardens built by António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, a Portuguese millionaire, between 1904-10 in Sintra, Portugal. 

He employed the Italian architect Luigi Manini to create the neo-Manueline main house and to design the gardens which are filled with curious buildings, follies, grottoes, towers and tunnels - such as the walls and turret seen here, which stand above the entrance to Leda's Cave (a grotto containing a marble sculpture of Leda and the swan).

The design of the garden is said to represent an initiate's metaphysical journey through the cosmos towards enlightenment.

Taken in: Portugal / Lisboa / Sintra (show map)

Taken on: September 17, 2011

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ28, f/4.0, 1/200 sec, 4.8mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ28
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Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	4.8mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
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