Valenças Palace

Sintra · Portugal · Palace

The maid Palmira killed herself over an unrequited love for the count – her footsteps still echo through the palace library.

The Palácio de Valenças in central Sintra was once the residence of the Counts of Valenças and today houses the town's historical archive. A maid named Palmira secretly loved her master the count – and when she realised her love would never be returned, she took her own life. Staff and visitors report creaking floorboards, whistling sounds and a weeping woman's voice drifting through empty rooms. The fact that the building is also said to have served as a slaughterhouse until 1859 hardly makes the story less unsettling.

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Hvor ligger Valenças Palace?

Valenças Palace ligger i Sintra, Portugal.