Photo credits
The photographs of the palace and the park on this site come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licences their photographers chose. Attribution is a condition of those licences rather than a courtesy, so every one is named below with a link back to the file it came from.
The still lifes are not the palace
The other pictures here are props, photographed as props: pressed leaves in a book, a brass hose nozzle on gravel, a terracotta pot, a folded paper ticket, seed packets, a watering can, frost on a fern. Not one of them shows this building, a room in it, the park, an identifiable plant collection or any person, and none is captioned as though it did. That line matters more here than on most sites, because a botanical park is exactly the subject where a pretty picture of some other garden would pass unnoticed.
The photographs, and who took them
| On the page | File | Photographer | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| The central hall: a marble fountain with a standing figure, framed by two polished columns under carved and pierced plasterwork | File:Interior Halle Monserrate .jpg | C30p05m80 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A ceiling seen from directly below — sixteen pierced white ribs radiating from a gilded central boss | File:Ceiling (14505475478).jpg | xlibber | CC BY 2.0 |
| The front of the palace under a grey sky, its round pavilion and arcaded porch above a stone fountain | File:Pal%C3%A1cio Monserrate (1).jpg | Jorge Lobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Tree ferns and undergrowth crowding a shaded slope in the Fern Valley | File:Valey of the Ferns in the gardens of Pal%C3%A1cio de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal 01.jpg | RicardoFilipePereira | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Beckford’s Waterfall dropping through a rock face thick with ferns | File:Cascata de Beckford, Parque de Monserrate em Sintra (36881123870).jpg | Sos Curiosidades | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Agaves, palms and dry-country planting along a path in the Mexican Garden | File:Garden of Mexico in the gardens of Pal%C3%A1cio de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal 04.jpg | RicardoFilipePereira | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The palace on its rise above the main lawn, with visitors small on the grass | File:Main lawn and the Palace in the Gardens of Pal%C3%A1cio de Monserrate, Sintra, Portugal 07.jpg | RicardoFilipePereira | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| An oil painting of 1790: Gerard de Visme’s white neo-Gothic house on its ridge, with the Sintra hills and the Moorish Castle behind | File:The Front View of Mr. de Vism%C3%A9s Country Seat at Montserat near Cintra, taken from the Quinta da Piedade (1790) - Alexandre-Jean No%C3%ABl.png | Alexandre Jean Noël | Public domain |
Each link goes to the file’s description page on Wikimedia Commons, where the full licence terms and the upload history live.
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