District: Lisboa · Grande Lisboa
Sintra
Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)
Sintra is a municipality in the district of Lisboa (sub-region: Grande Lisboa), covering 319 km² in 15 parishes. 44 % of it is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.
The map finds 549 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Algueirão-Mem Martins, Trajouce and Agualva-Cacém. 213 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Sintra, Belas and Mancebas.
- Parcels with a clearing duty
- 17,776 of 36,802 parcels
- Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
- Area to clear (mapped parcels)
- 4,993 ha
- Villages
- 549