"Today is the happiest day of my life. I know Italy, Sicily, Greece and Egypt, but I have never seen anything like Pena, anything at all. It's the most beautiful thing I've seen. This is the true garden of Klingsor, and the Castle of the Holy Grail is up yonder."

"I have never seen anything that so completely destroyed my desire to travel. If I had been born in Sintra, I believe nothing would have tempted me to abandon its refreshing shade and cross the terrible arid lands separating it from the world."

"Where nature and art are magnificently combined"