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Rio de Mouro
Town in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal

Rio de Mouro

Rio de Mouro is a town and civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal.

Plan a trip to Rio de Mouro→From Faro

It is located at a distance of 15 km from the capital, Lisbon. The population in 2011 was 47,311, in an area of 16.49 km2.

How locals move

Getting around Rio de Mouro the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: GualdimG (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.