Country house
19th century.
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The Joaquim Felizardo Museum of Porto Alegre is the city's history museum, housed in the «Solar Lopo Gonçalves», or Magnolia Manor, on Rua João Alfredo in the Cidade Baixa district. The house was built between 1845 and 1853 on a farm on the old Rua da Margem as the summer home of the merchant Lopo Gonçalves Bastos, who served two terms on the city council, since the district was then countryside outside the city limits. After Lopo's death in 1872 and his wife's in 1876, his daughter Maria Luísa and her husband inherited it and made it the family's permanent home; she enlarged it, adding a small inner courtyard and a turret. Today it is one of the finest surviving 19th-century country houses in Porto Alegre, with a quiet garden and old trees. Much of the museum's collection was damaged in the 2024 flood; teachers and students of the federal university helped recover some 80,000 items, and the gardens reopened to visitors in January 2025. Check whether the indoor exhibitions have returned before visiting.
19th century.
Open since 2025.
Added by the daughter.
Rua João Alfredo 582, Cidade Baixa, Porto Alegre
Ponte de Pedra (Porto Alegre)The Stone Bridge, also called the «Azores Bridge», is a historic monument in the8 minutes walk4.7
Viaduto Otávio RochaThe Otávio Rocha Viaduct is one of Porto Alegre's outstanding feats of engineeri12 minutes walk4.4
Farroupilha Park (Redenção)Farroupilha Park, which everyone in Porto Alegre calls Redenção, is the city's m13 minutes walk4.7
Piratini PalaceThe Piratini Palace is the seat of the Rio Grande do Sul state government, on Pr14 minutes walk4.6
UFRGS Astronomical ObservatoryThe Astronomical Observatory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul is a14 minutes walk4.6Its gardens have been open since January 2025; check whether the indoor exhibitions are back after the 2024 flood.