One day in Petrópolis, Brazil

A day through Petrópolis’s best-known sights that lie close together: Santos Dumont House Museum, Palácio de Cristal (Petrópolis), Cathedral of Petrópolis, Imperial Museum of Brazil, Palácio do Grão-Pará and Petrópolis Municipal Nature Park. 6 stops, about 2.2 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Santos Dumont House MuseumMuseum · On the map
  2. Palácio de Cristal (Petrópolis)Palace · 0.6 km on from Santos Dumont House Museum · On the map
  3. Cathedral of PetrópolisCathedral · 0.4 km on from Palácio de Cristal (Petrópolis) · On the map
  4. Imperial Museum of BrazilMuseum · 0.5 km on from Cathedral of Petrópolis · On the map
  5. Palácio do Grão-ParáPalace · 0.1 km on from Imperial Museum of Brazil · On the map
  6. Petrópolis Municipal Nature ParkPark · 0.5 km on from Palácio do Grão-Pará · On the map

6 stops, 4.2 km on foot along the streets: about 56 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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