TASIS Portugal
TASIS Portugal, formally known as The American School in Portugal, is a private American international school in Portugal.
TASIS Portugal, formally known as The American School in Portugal, is a private American international school in Portugal. It is the newest of the four TASIS Schools, a Swiss group of American international schools.
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Worth seeing in and around TASIS Portugal
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pena Palace
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.
3.2 km · palace in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02Castle of the Moors
The Castle of the Moors is a hilltop medieval castle located in the central Portuguese civil parish of Santa Maria e São Miguel, in the municipality of Sintra, about 25 km northwest of Lisbon. Built by the Moors in the 8th and 9th centuries, it was an important strategic point during the Reconquista, and was taken by Christian forces after the fall of Lisbon in 1147.
3.7 km · cultural heritage monument in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Sintra Mountains
The Sintra Mountains, is a mountain range in western Portugal. Its highest point is at 529 meters near Sintra.
3.1 km · mountain in Portugal · Wikipedia - 04Palácio e Quinta do Ramalhão, também denominado «Paço Real do Ramalhão» (actualmente Colégio de São José das Irmãs Dominicanas Portuguesas)
The Palace of Ramalhão is a neoclassical Palace in Sintra, Portugal. The palace has its origins in a small farm that was enlarged into a palace by Luis Garcia de Bivar in 1470.
3.2 km · neoclassical palace in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 05Carlucci American International School of Lisbon
The Carlucci American International School of Lisbon is a not-for-profit private international school in Linhó, Sintra, Portugal. Founded in 1956, CAISL is the oldest American school in the Iberian Peninsula and the only U.S. State Department sponsored school in Portugal.
1.2 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 06Igreja da Penha Longa
Igreja da Penha Longa is a church in Linhó, Sintra, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.
1 km · cultural heritage monument in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Chalet da Condessa de Edla
The Chalet and Garden of the Countess of Edla, also known as the Casa do Regalo, are in the Municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon District of Portugal. They are situated on the western side of the park that surrounds the Pena Palace, and are part of the Sintra Cultural Landscape, classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 1995.
3.1 km · building in Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Igreja de Santa Maria (Sintra)
Igreja de Santa Maria is a church in Sintra, Portugal. It has been classified as a National Monument since 1922 and is part of the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, a World Heritage Site since 1995.
3.8 km · church building in Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
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Getting to TASIS Portugal
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 22 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 230 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 283 km
- Faro → TASIS Portugal232 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · €30–42
- Porto → TASIS Portugal274 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · €34–47
- Seville → TASIS Portugal334 km · quickest by road, 6h 34m · €49–70
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for TASIS Portugal
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for TASIS Portugal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inin Lisbon, take the commuters train from Rossio station to explore Sintra and/or the Nature Reserve finishing in Cascais, a beautiful day trip on a bicycle, in the end take a train back to Cais do Sodre station in Lisbon where you may drop back your bicycle.
- Get aroundTuktuks are freely available to go up the mountain to the fort, or Pena (ask to be dropped off at the high entrance if you are going to Pena).
- Get aroundThe walking trail through the woods to the Moorish castle starts above the Sintra city at .
From Wikivoyage: Sintra, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to TASIS Portugal
TASIS Portugal is 21 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alcabidechecivil parish in Cascais, Portugal2.7 km
- Quinta da Belouragated community and golf resort in Lisbon District, Portugal1.5 km
- Linhóvillage in São Pedro de Penaferrim, Sintra1.2 km