MAFRA and ERICEIRA or Mafra and Queluz Tailor Made

In Mafra municipality The great royal lifestyle of the 18th and 19th Centuries, before and after 1755 earthquake, influenced by world maritime trade, contrasting with the peasants vivid rurality, all this assaulted by Napoleon´s wars. To fully understand the identity of the Portuguese as the People of the Sea. The centrality of all this is a huge marble building, the biggest complex of Palace Convent Basilica and military base in Europe, vision of the early 1700´s Sun King. Here you find a 98 bells set, the one best preserved in the world and still beautifully playing. In Sobreiro or Aldeia da Mata Pequena, experience and interpret the simplicity of living through the hard rural life achievements, reality of Portugal peasants till the early 1980´s. And don’t forget, the Pão de Mafra and \ or the Pão com Chouriço, or the Fradinho and the Ouriços of Ericeira.