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The gardens of the Palace of Monserrate, over the first four weekends of July, are hosting the “Splendor in the Grass” cinema cycle, with its program containing twelve masterpieces from this history of cinema, many of them purpose shown at night and in the open air in order to convey a unique experience to visitors. This is a Parques de Sintra initiative with programming by the cineaste João Mário Grilo.
At night, on a gigantic screen, a unique scenario in an authentic natural amphitheatre, with its lawns for the seating, complemented by an architectonic framework that is equally unique in Portugal and that certainly adds new dimensions to the concept of “going to the cinema”: the film program seeks to convey a significant panorama over both the diverse identity of cinema and the very best this form has conveyed to us down the years.
Programming – “Splendor in the Grass” [PDF]
01/07 | Saturday | 9h30pm
Splendor in the Grass – 1961
Director: Elia Kazan
Runtime: 124 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
02/07 | Sunday | 4pm
Sunrise, A Song of Two Humans – 1927
Director: F. W. Murnau
Runtime: 94 minutos
Palace Auditorium
07/07 | Friday | 9h30pm
Senso – 1954
Director: Luchino Visconti
Runtime: 123 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
08/07 | Saturday | 4pm
Our Hospitality – 1923
Director: Buster Keaton
Runtime: 87 minutos
Palace Auditorium
08/07 | Saturday | 9h30pm
Singin’in the Rain – 1952
Directors: Stanley Donen e Gene Kelly
Runtime:: 102 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
09/07 | Sunday | 4pm
Modern Times – 1936
Director: Charles Chaplin
Runtime: 87 minutos
Palace Auditorium
14/07 | Friday | 9h30pm
Fantasia – 1940
Walt Disney
Runtime: 124 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
15/07 | Saturday | 4pm
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot – 1953
Director: Jacques Tati
Runtime: 100 minutos
Palace Auditorium
15/07 | Saturday | 9h30pm
Ran – 1985
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Runtime: 162 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
16/07 | Sunday | 4pm
Les Quatre Cent Coups – 1959
Director: François Truffaut
Runtime: 93 minutos
Palace Auditorium
21/07 | Friday | 9h30pm
Johnny Guitar (Johnny Guitar) – 1954
Director: Nicholas Ray
Runtime: 110 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
22/07 | Saturdat | 9h30pm
Vertigo – 1958
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Runtime: 129 minutos
Monserrate Lawns
Useful information
Ticket prices:
– Night-time sessions (open air) – €5 adult and €3.5 young persons (aged from 6 to 18) – The Palace is also open for visits;
– Daytime sessions (Palace auditorium) – Included in the Palace entrance ticket with availability limited to the auditorium’s seating capacity. The purchase of day tickets for visiting the Palace of Monserrate does not provide the right of free entry to the night-time cinema sessions;
– Scotturb is providing free transport between Sintra Railway Station and the Park of Monserrate to all cinema cycle ticket holders.
Seating capacity:
– Open air (night-time sessions) – 500 seats (on the lawn);
– Palace Auditorium (daytime sessions) – 60 seats.
Some night-time cinema suggestions:
• We recommend wearing some warm clothing and comfortable footwear;
• We also strongly recommend using public transport.
Ticket sales: Parques de Sintra ticket offices, www.parquesdesintra.pt, www.blueticket.pt, FNAC, Worten, El Corte Inglés, MEO Arena, Media Markt, ACP stores, PAGAQUI network and Turismo de Lisboa.
