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Words Nowadays I keep thinking of words I came across many years ago in the Turin Book Fair – “Read and get over your cares” … I must admit words are magical, because it is through them that we convey our thoughts. Through them we forgive, love, suffer, cherish, hope, dream and travel...

Dear Friends of Monserrate, We would like to thank all those that joined us for the inauguration of the Valley of the Roses, an occasion which will stay in our memories and in the History of the Association of the Friends of Monserrate (AAM).

It was in the Summer of 1992, the year of the Friends of Monserrate official launch, that I first ventured into the Rose Valley.  After many years of neglect, the valley had been cleared in 1987 by a a group of Canadian gardeners led by Gerald Luckhurst.  

The renovated Vale das Rosas (Valley of Roses) was inaugurated on 29 March 2011 by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Cornwall. Awaiting them at the Monserrate Palace was present a group of more than 90 Friends of Monserrate, together with the British community resident..

The restoration of the Rose Garden is the most important project currently being undertaken by the Friends of Monserrate.  It is situated in one of the three main valleys of the Garden, the other two being the Fern Valley and “Mexico”.

Serves 4-6 Use a 21,5 cm round pie dish, about 4 cm deep. Ingredients: Crust: 150 g of plain flour            60 g of porridge oats            150 g light brown muscovado sugar            2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon            175 g unsalted butter, chilled and...

Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo- Sintra XXII.

WALKS IN A FOREST from Spring While thus the imprisoned leaves and waking flowers Burst from their tombs, the birds that lurked unseen Amid the hibernal shade, in busy tribes...

This first Newsletter, of the new generation webpage we've just created, intends to revisit from the past, to pay homage to all of those that, with joint wills, launched and managed to keep alive the Associação dos Amigos de Monserrate (AAM).

“We make a living with what we do, but we make a life with what we give” so said Winston Churchill. Monserrate gave me the opportunity to give and for a cause close to my heart. As children we often went to Monserrate for picnics or walks.