Petrópolis, Natal — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Petrópolis?

Four listings sit inside the bairro. The Museu das Naus and the Museu da Imprensa Oficial Eloy de Souza hold their collections a few streets apart, while the Memorial do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte keeps the record of the institute it belongs to. The Capela São Judas Tadeu completes the set.

Cidade Alta stands under a kilometre off, so Petrópolis works as one stop on a walk through the older bairros of Natal.

What is the history of Petrópolis?

Nobody wrote down when Petrópolis began. What Petrópolis keeps instead is a run of institutions: the Museu da Imprensa Oficial Eloy de Souza, the Museu das Naus and the memorial of the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte. The Capela São Judas Tadeu carries a saint's name.

Natal grew outward from Cidade Alta after 1599, and the bairros beside it, Petrópolis among them, hold the institutions that came later in Brazil's capital of Rio Grande do Norte.

Where is Petrópolis?

Cidade Alta lies under a kilometre away and Praia do Meio about the same, which puts Petrópolis among the closely packed bairros of Natal.