{"id":284,"date":"2013-06-14T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:14:19","slug":"mons-lunae-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Mons Lunae, About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-286\" alt=\"sintra_bn1\" src=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0origin of Sintra is lost over time through traces dating from 12 000a.C.<\/p>\n<p>It is known however that in the \u00a0Pre Historic time Sintra was Called \u201cMons Lunae\u201d (Moon Hill) tradition of astral cults, still visible today in many monuments.<br \/>\nSintra passed by numerous people, and the Romans were the ones who left more traces.<br \/>\nThe Romans gave it the name \u00a0\u201dMons Sacer\u201d (Holy Mountain), believed that the place was sacred because of all the Sierra was \u00a0a massive 10km long mountain range that winds in to the Atlantic Ocean to form the Cabo da Roca, the Western tip of the European continent.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing then that all that was sacred territory, the Romans erected many temples and shrines dedicated to the Sun and Moon \u00a0cults that were later associated with the Imperial cult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-287\" alt=\"sintra_bn2\" src=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until today Sintra has a special and unique atmosphere that can gives the feeling that there is more the eye can see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-285\" alt=\"sintra_bn3\" src=\"http:\/\/lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sintra_bn3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0origin of Sintra is lost over time through traces dating from 12 000a.C. It is known however that in the \u00a0Pre Historic time Sintra was Called \u201cMons Lunae\u201d (Moon Hill) tradition of astral cults, still visible today in many monuments. Sintra passed by numerous people, and the Romans were the ones who left more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}