The Green of the life has in the National Forest of the Buçaco one of his more fascinating nooks. 
The Forest of the Buçaco is a thick forest, many secular times, where the trees have to carry gigantic and healthy rich in essences, perfumes and brilliance.  Cedars, firs, sequóias, tílias, elm tree, laurel tree, beech trees, gigantic foetuses, acacias and ashes, originating from the America, of the Australia, of the Himalayas or of so many others localities of the World, planted and take care by generations of monks Barefoot Carmelites that lived, in cloister and contemplation by more of 200 years, between 1630 and 1834, in this magnificent altar of the Nature, sacred and protected by directions of the Pope Urban VIII of 1634.

In the interior of the lush Mountain Range of the Buçaco, of big importance botany, we find the place of the old Convent of the Barefoot Carmelites to which came to be increased in ends of the sec XIX the haughty palace neo Manuelin style. 
The Real Palace, the last bequest of the Kings of Portugal situated in the Forest of the Bussaco, join architectural and botanical attractions and landscapes  unique in the Europe where is installed currently the Palace Hotel of the Bussaco, categorized as one of the most beautiful and historical hotels of the world.  It was classified as Motionless of Public Interest in 1996. 
Situated in the interior of the National Forest of the Bussaco resembles-itself to a Tower of Belém (Lisbon) surrounded of an extensive green ocean, a magical forest where are found equally chapels, springs, terraces and a Convent. 
The building of the current hotel, projected in the last quarter of the century XIX in neo-manuelin style, is decorated with panels of tiles, fresh and allusive charts to the Epic of the Portuguese Discoverers, all signed by some of the greatest masters of the arts.