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Things to do in Maceió: the full list behind the map

This interactive map of Maceió (Brazil) brings together 141 hand-picked places: 48 attractions, 43 restaurants, 24 cafés and 26 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.

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Walking routes in Maceió

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The jangada shoreline: Pajuçara → Ponta Verde

5.5 km on foot along the shoreline cycle path. Start as the tide is dropping (Nov 6–11, between 7:49am and 10:34am) so the jangadas are heading out. · 7 stops

  1. Praia de Pajuçara
  2. Jangada boarding point
  3. Natural pools (2 km offshore)
  4. Pavilhão do Artesanato
  5. Gogó da Ema
  6. Marco dos Corais
  7. Praia de Ponta Verde
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Jaraguá and the Centro: the Maceió that came before the beach

3 km on foot. Start at the VLT terminus in Jaraguá and finish at Praça dos Martírios. Do it by day: the old town empties out at dusk. · 7 stops

  1. Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde)
  2. Praça Bom Jesus dos Navegantes
  3. Museu Pierre Chalita
  4. MISA
  5. Museu Théo Brandão
  6. Praça dos Martírios
  7. Teatro Deodoro
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The lagoon and the filé: Pontal da Barra

Half an afternoon in Pontal. The filé of the Mundaú-Manguaba lagoons has held an INPI geographical indication since 2016: buy at the workshop, not at the beach fair. · 6 stops

  1. Pontal da Barra
  2. Rua das Rendeiras
  3. Gabriel Artesanato
  4. Tatiana's rendeira workshop
  5. Ilha do Lisboa (Lagoa Mundaú)
  6. Bar da Boa Petiscaria
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North shore: from Cruz das Almas to Ipioca

28 km up the AL-101 Norte by car or app. These are the beaches the IMA bulletin keeps approving, unlike the hotel strip. Ipioca is Maceió's last neighborhood. · 7 stops

  1. Praia de Cruz das Almas
  2. Parque Shopping Maceió
  3. SESC Guaxuma
  4. Praia de Garça Torta
  5. Praia da Sereia
  6. Café de La Musique
  7. Praia de Ipioca
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Eating and drinking coffee in Jatiúca and Ponta Verde

1.8 km on foot between Mário de Gusmão and Antônio Gomes de Barros. Specialty coffee in the morning, sururu and seafood at midday, katsu sando at night. · 7 stops

  1. Nakaffa (specialty coffee)
  2. Divina Gula
  3. Truck Zone
  4. Akuaba
  5. Wanchako
  6. SAIKŌ Katsu Sando
  7. Sorveteria Bali
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Things to do in Maceió: top attractions

Alagoas' #1 postcard

Piscinas Naturais de Pajuçara

Piscinas Naturais da Pajuçara · Pajuçara

Turquoise pools on the reef, 2 km offshore: they only surface at low tide.

Tip: Real low tides in November 2026: Nov 6 at 7:49am (0.25 m), Nov 7 at 8:23am (0.22 m), Nov 8 at 8:59am (0.21 m), Nov 9 at 9:29am (0.22 m). At high tide you pay for the jangada (a sailing raft) and see nothing.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 23 min walk

Featured in: CHM/Marinha do Brasil · tábua do Porto de Maceió nov-2026

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R$40-60 per person

Salida de las jangadas a las piscinas

Passeio de Jangada para as Piscinas Naturais · Pajuçara

The boarding point on the sand: sailing jangadas heading out to the corais.

Tip: There is no regulated fare: the price is negotiated with the licensed jangadeiro on the beach. Ask to see the licence and agree the price BEFORE you climb aboard.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 21 min walk

Featured in: Jornal Extra de Alagoas · 10/2025

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Living reef

Recife Pajuçara

Recife Pajuçara · Enseada de Pajuçara

The reef bank that breaks the swell and builds the natural pools.

Tip: Never step or stand on the coral: the reef is what makes the pools. Bring water shoes.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 23 min walk

Featured in: OSM · natural=reef

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Shorter queue

Recife da Ponta Verde

Recife da Ponta Verde · Ponta Verde

A short reef off Ponta Verde, the quick alternative to Pajuçara.

Tip: The boats at Ponta Verde charge R$60-80, pricier than the Pajuçara jangada for much the same ride.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Jornal Extra de Alagoas · 10/2025

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A Maceió classic

Praia de Pajuçara

Praia da Pajuçara · Pajuçara

The jangada beach: palm trees, kiosks and the cycle path right by the sea.

Tip: IMA water bulletin sampled on Oct 25 2026: two Pajuçara points came back IMPRÓPRIOS for swimming (outside Restaurante Parmegiano and near Rua João Carneiro). The water out at the pools, 2 km away, is another story.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 24 min walk

Featured in: IMA/AL · boletim coletado 25/10/2026

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Tourist heart

Praia de Ponta Verde

Praia da Ponta Verde · Ponta Verde

The city's hotel strip: wide sand, quiosques and sunset over the shoreline.

Tip: Two of the monitored points in Ponta Verde came back IMPRÓPRIOS in the Oct 25 2026 bulletin (Av. Sílvio Carlos Viana and Av. Álvaro Otacílio). Check the IMA bulletin before you get in.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

Featured in: IMA/AL · boletim coletado 25/10/2026

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Bars right on the sand

Praia de Jatiúca

Praia de Jatiúca · Jatiúca

The beach of the big hotels and the barracas with live music, north of Ponta Verde.

Tip: The point right outside Hotel Maceió Atlantic came back IMPRÓPRIO on Oct 25 2026. Walk 300 paces north or south and the picture changes.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: IMA/AL · boletim coletado 25/10/2026

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A local's beach

Praia de Cruz das Almas

Praia Cruz das Almas · Cruz das Almas

Open sand and rougher surf, where the city stops being a postcard and turns into a neighborhood.

Tip: In the September bulletin one Cruz das Almas point (outside Condomínio Solaris) came back impróprio while the other two (Ritz Residence, Leroy Merlin) came back próprios: here the water changes block by block.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 6 min walk

Featured in: IMA/AL · boletim 17/09/2026

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Quiet north

Praia de Garça Torta

Praia de Garça Torta · Garça Torta

Coqueiros, a reef close in and fish barracas: the north shore without the towers.

Tip: One of the beaches the IMA bulletin keeps approving. 20 min by car from Ponta Verde and you are in another world.

🚇 Terminal José Tenório (city bus) + 23 min by taxi/app

Featured in: IMA/AL · boletins 2026

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Pools, no jangada

Praia da Sereia

Praia da Sereia · Riacho Doce

Reef pools right by the shoreline and translucent green water, still inside the city limits.

Tip: Here you can walk out to the natural pools at low tide: no need to pay for a jangada. Same tide windows as Pajuçara.

🚇 Terminal do Conjunto Frei Damião (city bus) + 27 min by taxi/app

Featured in: CHM/Marinha · tábua nov-2026

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End of the city

Praia de Ipioca

Praia de Ipioca · Ipioca

Maceió's last neighborhood heading north: wooden barracas, fried fish and no concrete.

Tip: This is the real edge of Maceió. Anything sold to you as 'Maceió' beyond it - Barra de Santo Antônio, São Miguel dos Milagres, Maragogi - is a different town and another hour on the road.

🚇 Terminal do Conjunto Frei Damião (city bus) + 23 min by taxi/app

Featured in: IBGE · limite municipal de Maceió

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Marinha do Brasil

Farol da Ponta Verde

Farol de Ponta Verde · Ponta Verde

A Marinha do Brasil lighthouse planted on the point that divides Ponta Verde from Jatiúca.

Tip: You cannot go inside, but the point is the best spot to watch the jangadas come in at sunset.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 11 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · man_made=lighthouse, operator Marinha do Brasil

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A lost symbol

Monumento Gogó da Ema

Monumento Gogó da Ema · Ponta Verde

A tribute to the bent coconut palm that was Maceió's symbol until a storm brought it down in 1955.

Tip: The original palm is long gone: what you see is the monument. The good shot is backlit, around 5pm.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Prefeitura de Maceió · OSM operator

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Alagoas literature

Estátua de Graciliano Ramos

Estátua Graciliano Ramos · Pajuçara

The Alagoas author of 'Vidas Secas', sitting in front of the sea he barely wrote about.

Tip: Graciliano was mayor of Palmeira dos Índios and later a political prisoner: the statue faces the sea, his books faced the sertão (the dry backlands).

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Prefeitura de Maceió · OSM

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Instagram viral

A Cadeira Gigante de Maceió

A Cadeira Gigante · Pajuçara

The XXL beach chair that became the shoreline's compulsory selfie.

Tip: Do it early: after 9am there is a queue and the sun burns your back while you wait.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · historic=monument

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Lookout over the reef

Marco dos Corais

Marco dos Corais · Ponta Verde

A small pier-lookout over the Ponta Verde reef: you see the green water from above.

Tip: At low tide you can see the whole reef breaking the surface from here. The good light is between 6 and 8 in the morning.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · man_made=pier

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Local calendar

Centro Cultural Arte Pajuçara

Centro Cultural Arte Pajuçara · Pajuçara

Gallery, exhibitions and a calendar of Alagoas music right on Av. Dr. Antônio Gouveia.

Tip: Open Tuesday to Sunday 2pm-10pm: one of the few cultural venues on the beach strip that stays open at night.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 22 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · artepajucara.com.br

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Linha Verde terminus

Estação Jaraguá do VLT

Estação Jaraguá · Jaraguá

The VLT light rail terminus inside the old town: the walk through the port's colonial houses starts here.

Tip: The Linha Verde has only four stops: Jaraguá, Maceió, Mercado and Bom Parto. R$2.50 a ride.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde)

Featured in: CBTU Maceió · OSM relation Linha Verde

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Where Jaraguá began

Praça Bom Jesus dos Navegantes

Praça Bom Jesus dos Navegantes · Jaraguá

The square of historic Jaraguá, ringed by sobrados from the sugar and port years.

Tip: Jaraguá has been listed by the State of Alagoas since 1984, but the restoration is uneven: there are immaculate sobrados and boarded-up ones on the same block. Walk it by day.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 3 min walk

Featured in: Patrimônio estadual de Alagoas, tombamento de 1984

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Shade in the old town

Praça Dois Leões

Praça Dois Leões · Jaraguá

A tree-shaded square between recycled port warehouses and 19th-century public buildings.

Tip: This is where the Prefeitura, the Câmara Municipal and the IPHAN all meet: every lever of power in Maceió within 200 paces.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 4 min walk

Featured in: OSM · leisure=park

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Audiovisual memory

MISA · Museu da Imagem e do Som

MISA - Museu da Imagem e do Som de Alagoas · Jaraguá

An archive of Alagoas photography, film and sound inside a sobrado on Rua Sá e Albuquerque.

Tip: Call ahead before going: the small museums of Jaraguá close for maintenance without notice.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 4 min walk

Featured in: OSM · tourism=museum, Rua Sá e Albuquerque 275

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Private collection

Museu Pierre Chalita

Museu Fundação Pierre Chalita · Jaraguá

Alagoas painting, sacred art and porcelain brought together by the artist Pierre Chalita.

Tip: The collection is strongest in sacred art from the Nordeste. Call first: the foundation tends to open only for short weekday hours.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 3 min walk

Featured in: OSM · Fundação Pierre Chalita, Praça Manoel Duarte

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Port revival

Espaço Armazém

Espaço Armazém · Jaraguá

A port warehouse recycled into a venue for events, fairs and parties.

Tip: It is the best example of an old-port warehouse converted into something new. It only opens when there is an event: check the calendar.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 5 min walk

Featured in: OSM · armazemuzina.com

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Alagoas folklore

Museu Théo Brandão

Museu Théo Brandão de Antropologia e Folclore · Centro

UFAL's museum of Alagoas folk culture, facing the sea on Av. da Paz.

Tip: Open Monday to Friday 8am-5pm; temporary shows Tuesday to Friday 9am-5pm. This is where filé (a netted lace embroidery), the guerreiro and the pastoril finally make sense.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 9 min walk

Featured in: UFAL · ufal.br, horarios oficiales

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Federal university

Museu de História Natural da UFAL

Museu de História Natural da UFAL · Farol

Fossils, minerals and Nordeste wildlife in the federal university's collection.

Tip: UFAL also keeps part of the collection in Prado: check mhn.ufal.br for which site is open to the public before you go.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 17 min walk

Featured in: OSM · mhn.ufal.br

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The state palace

Museu Palácio Floriano Peixoto

Museu Palácio Marechal Floriano Peixoto · Centro

The 19th-century seat of government turned museum, right on Praça dos Martírios.

Tip: The complex has two separate doors: the Museu Palácio and the Governo de Alagoas offices next door. Only the museum is open to visitors.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 8 min walk

Featured in: OSM · tourism=museum, Praça dos Martírios

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Colonial ensemble

Praça dos Martírios

Praça dos Martírios · Centro

Maceió's most complete colonial set: palace, church and theatre around one square.

Tip: The three buildings are visited separately and keep different hours. Start at the palace museum and finish at the theatre.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 9 min walk

Featured in: OSM · leisure=park

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Portuguese azulejo

Igreja Nossa Senhora dos Martírios

Igreja Nossa Senhora dos Martírios · Centro

A 19th-century church clad in Portuguese azulejos, on one flank of Praça dos Martírios.

Tip: Look at the tilework on the side facade: it is what survives of the Maceió built by the sugar years.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 10 min walk

Featured in: OSM · amenity=place_of_worship, denomination catholic

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A 1910 house

Teatro Deodoro

Teatro Marechal Deodoro · Centro

Maceió's historic theatre, built in 1910, on the edge of Praça dos Martírios.

Tip: It opens with the programme, not every day. If there is no show, ask at the desk to see the foyer: they usually let you in.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 5 min walk

Featured in: OSM · amenity=theatre

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The city's patron

Catedral de Maceió

Igreja Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres · Centro

Maceió Cathedral, dedicated to Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres, the city's patron saint.

Tip: On September 27, the patron saint's day, the shops downtown shut and the cathedral fills up: not a day for a city tour.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 6 min walk

Featured in: OSM · place_of_worship catholic

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Political memory

Memorial à República

Memorial à República · Jaraguá

A memorial to the republic and to the presidents Alagoas produced, near Salgadinho.

Tip: Alagoas gave the country two presidents: Floriano Peixoto and Fernando Collor. The memorial tells that story without much ceremony.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 16 min walk

Featured in: OSM · historic=memorial

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Best view in Maceió

Mirante de São Gonçalo

Mirante São Gonçalo · Farol

The city's balcony: from the top of Farol you see the whole shoreline and the port.

Tip: There is a cafe up top (Café Farol). Go at sunset: from here you get the full curve from Pajuçara to Jatiúca.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 12 min walk

Featured in: OSM · tourism=viewpoint

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The other lookout

Mirante de Santa Terezinha

Mirante de Santa Terezinha · Farol

The neighboring lookout, on the Farol hillside, facing the Centro and Salgadinho.

Tip: Fewer people than São Gonçalo and the same bay. Go by day: the hillside is dark at night.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 13 min walk

Featured in: OSM · leisure=park, Rua Capitão Samuel Lins

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Story of the torpedoings

Museu da Segunda Guerra Mundial

Museu da Segunda Guerra Mundial · Centro

A collection on Brazil's part in the war, centred on the ships torpedoed off Alagoas.

Tip: In 1942 German submarines sank ships off this very coast: that is the episode that pulled Brazil into the war.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde)

Featured in: OSM · tourism=museum

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A craft with a seal

Rua das Rendeiras

Rua das Rendeiras · Pontal da Barra

The street of the filé embroiderers: open workshops between the lagoon and the sea.

Tip: Bordado Filé (a netted lace embroidery) from the Mundaú-Manguaba lagoon region has held an INPI geographical indication since 2016. Ask about the seal and ask to see the frame: handmade filé shows the knot on the reverse side.

🚇 Terminal Pontal da Barra (city bus) + 10 min walk

Featured in: INPI · IG do Bordado Filé, 2016 · Inbordal

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Two waters

Pontal da Barra

Pontal da Barra · Pontal da Barra

The spit of land between Lagoa Mundaú and the Atlantic: filé, sururu and sunset.

Tip: It is the only spot on this map where you see the sea and the lagoon by turning your head. The sunset is on the lagoon side, not the sea side.

🚇 Terminal Pontal da Barra (city bus) + 6 min walk

Featured in: OSM · place=suburb

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Island tour

Ilha do Lisboa

Ilha do Lisboa · Lagoa Mundaú

One of the islands on the lagoon tour, with stilt-built barracas and sururu (a lagoon mussel) straight out of the water.

Tip: Boating on the Mundaú was restricted over the risk from the rock-salt mines: the Capitania dos Portos reopened fishing as far as the buoys in February 2024, but the stretch closest to the mines is still off limits.

🚇 Terminal do Trapiche (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Capitania dos Portos de Alagoas · revogação de portaria, 21/02/2024

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Forest inside the city

Parque Municipal de Maceió

Parque Municipal de Maceió · Bebedouro–Petrópolis

Genuine urban Atlantic forest inside the city, with trails and native wildlife.

Tip: Open Tuesday to Sunday 8am-4pm and individual entry is free with no booking. Groups of more than 10 DO have to book a guided visit by email, and slots open on the 15th of each month for the following month (up to 50 people per group).

🚇 Terminal João Sampaio (city bus) + 4 min walk

Featured in: Prefeitura de Maceió/ALURB · 2026, 8 mil visitantes agendados

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Urban green

Parque do Horto

Parque do Horto · Gruta de Lourdes

The municipal nursery turned shady park, up on Av. Fernandes Lima.

Tip: Open Monday to Saturday 8am-5pm. It is the easy-to-reach lung of the upper city, and no booking is needed.

🚇 Terminal da Chã Da Jaqueira (city bus) + 5 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours Mo-Sa 08:00-17:00

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Open 24 hours

Parque da Mulher

Parque da Mulher · Mangabeiras

A public park open 24 hours with a running track, playgrounds and courts, next to Maceió Shopping.

Tip: It backs onto Maceió Shopping: handy for stretching your legs between shops.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 25 min walk

Featured in: OSM · opening_hours 24 Horas

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Neighborhood square

Praça do Centenário

Praça do Centenário · Farol

Farol's big square, with a street fair, a playground and a skating rink.

Tip: On weekends a crafts and food fair sets up: this is where middle-class Maceió spends its Sunday.

🚇 Estação Bom Parto (Linha Verde) + 19 min walk

Featured in: OSM · leisure=park

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Street art

Corredor Cultural Vera Arruda

Corredor Cultural Vera Arruda · Jatiúca

A tree-lined walk with graffiti, fairs and good food between the streets of Jatiúca.

Tip: It is the pedestrian spine of Jatiúca's restaurant district: you can eat and stroll without crossing an avenue.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · leisure=park

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Clássico das Multidões

Estádio Rei Pelé

Estádio Rei Pelé (Trapichão) · Trapiche da Barra

Home ground of CSA and CRB: the fiercest derby in the Nordeste.

Tip: The official name is still Estádio Rei Pelé, with no sponsor attached: the fans call it Trapichão. CSA x CRB derby day is the city's biggest show.

🚇 Terminal do Trapiche (city bus) + 7 min walk

Featured in: OSM · description 'popularmente conhecido como Trapichão'

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View of the lagoon

Mirante da Santa Amélia

Mirante da Santa Amélia · Santa Amélia

A municipal lookout on the northern hillside, facing Lagoa Mundaú.

Tip: It is the upper city's lagoon lookout: from here you watch the Mundaú open out towards Coqueiro Seco.

🚇 Terminal João Sampaio (city bus) + 18 min walk

Featured in: OSM · man_made=observatory, Prefeitura de Maceió

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Beach club

Café de La Musique Maceió

Café de La Musique Maceió · Pescaria, AL-101 Norte

An electronic-music beach club up the north shore, on the way to Ipioca.

Tip: It sits on the AL-101 Norte at km 10, 30 min from Ponta Verde: go and come back by app, there is no night bus out here.

🚇 Terminal do Conjunto Frei Damião (city bus) + 18 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · cafedelamusiquemaceio.com.br

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North shore made easy

SESC Guaxuma

SESC Guaxumã · Guaxuma

The SESC beach complex on the north shore, with pools and access to the sea.

Tip: Open to the general public for an entry fee; retail workers with a SESC card pay far less.

🚇 Terminal José Tenório (city bus) + 15 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · sescalagoas.com.br

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Restricted area

Área Vermelha do Pinheiro (zona interditada)

Área Vermelha - Pinheiro · Pinheiro

There is a gap in the map of Maceió: five neighborhoods emptied by subsidence of the ground. Not open to visitors.

Tip: Pinheiro, Mutange, Bebedouro, Bom Parto and part of Farol make up the evacuation zone caused by Braskem's rock-salt mining: some 60,000 people moved out and about 67% of the buildings have already been demolished. Access is restricted and patrolled. Do not go in, do not take photographs from inside and do not book 'disaster tours': this is the neighborhood of people who lost their homes. The tourist strip - Pajuçara, Ponta Verde, Jatiúca - is NOT in the affected zone.

🚇 Terminal Sanatório - Pinheiro (city bus) + 16 min walk

Featured in: Correio Braziliense 31/03/2026 · Defesa Civil de Maceió

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Closed off

Mutange (barrio vaciado)

Mutange · Mutange

The neighborhood that holds Mina 18, which gave way in December 2023 and sped everything up.

Tip: The Mutange station on the trem urbano was taken out of service and the Bom Parto-Bebedouro stretch has been suspended since April 1 2020 by order of the Defesa Civil; CBTU expects to reopen it only in late 2027. It is not on any line currently running.

🚇 Estação Bom Parto (Linha Verde) + 22 min walk

Featured in: CBTU · Tribuna Hoje 22/05/2026 · Wikipedia Sistema de Trens Urbanos de Maceió

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Where to eat in Maceió: restaurants

The go-to nordestino

Bodega do Sertão (Pajuçara)

Bodega do Sertão · Pajuçara

A sertão buffet on the shoreline: carne de sol, feijão verde, macaxeira and baião.

Tip: Fried macaxeira (cassava) is the true Alagoas side dish; the bolo de rolo you see in Nordeste display cases is from Pernambuco, not from here.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 23 min walk

Featured in: Revista Fórum 27/02/2026 · dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026

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An absolute classic

Imperador dos Camarões (Praia)

Imperador dos Camarões Praia · Pajuçara

Maceió's shrine to shrimp, home of the famous 'chiclete de camarão'.

Tip: Get there before noon or book ahead: in high season the wait runs over an hour. The 'chiclete' is breaded shrimp so tender it turns chewy, not a snack.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 22 min walk

Featured in: Revista Fórum 27/02/2026 · dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026

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Seafood specialist

Janga Praia

Janga Praia · Pajuçara

Seafood with your feet in the sand: bolinho de camarão and baked cocada with ice cream.

Tip: Order the cocada de forno with sorvete for dessert: the Alagoas finish almost nobody asks for.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 31 min walk

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Feet in the sand

Restaurante Anamá

Restaurante Anamá · Ponta Verde

Seafood cooking facing the Ponta Verde shoreline, with a terrace and a view.

Tip: One of the few places on the shoreline with tables on the sand and a serious kitchen at the same time.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Chef cooking in Jatiúca

Mahr Gastronomia

Mahr Gastronomia · Jatiúca

Chef-driven seafood with a short menu and short opening hours in Jatiúca.

Tip: Closed Monday and Tuesday, and Sunday lunch fills up: book ahead. Few hours open, very focused cooking.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Afro-Brazilian

Akuaba

Akuaba & Vera Moreira · Jatiúca

Afro-Brazilian and Bahian cooking in Jatiúca: acarajé, moquecas and dendê.

Tip: Open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-11pm, closed Monday. The acarajé is one of the few done properly outside Bahia.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 29 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · Revista Fórum 27/02/2026

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Minas in Alagoas

Divina Gula

Divina Gula · Jatiúca

Minas Gerais cooking with Alagoas ingredients: caldinho de feijão, shrimp and a wood-fired stove.

Tip: The caldinho de feijão to start is all but compulsory. Portions are generous: order to share.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026 · viciadaemviajar 16/04/2026

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Maceió's Peruvian

Wanchako

Wanchako · Ponta Verde

Peruvian cooking with Alagoas fish: ceviches, tiraditos and causas.

Tip: Dinner only on weekdays, and until midnight on Friday and Saturday. Book: the room is small.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Revista Fórum 27/02/2026 · OSM opening_hours

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Mainha's cooking

Casa de Mainha (Pajuçara)

Restaurante Casa de Mainha · Pajuçara

Regional home cooking: fish, arroz de polvo and platters made to share.

Tip: Open every day 11am-10pm. The arroz de polvo (octopus rice) is the dish to order, and it feeds two.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 26 min walk

Featured in: Revista Fórum 27/02/2026 · OSM opening_hours

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Regional in the old town

Casa de Mainha (Jaraguá)

Restaurante Casa de Mainha - Jaraguá · Jaraguá

The old-town branch, inside a sobrado on Rua Sá e Albuquerque.

Tip: One of the very few good restaurants open at night in Jaraguá: pair it with Rex Jazz Bar.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 6 min walk

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Forró every night

Cheiro da Terra

Cheiro da Terra · Pajuçara

Nordeste cooking with live forró every night, facing the shoreline.

Tip: Open 11am-midnight every day. You come as much for the forró as for the carne de sol: the band plays for locals, not for tour groups.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min walk

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Alagoas-sized portion

Filé do Zezé

Filé do Zezé · Jatiúca

A fish and steak house in Jatiúca with a neighborhood crowd and huge platters.

Tip: One of the addresses where people from Maceió eat, not the hotels. Order a half portion if you are on your own.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

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Contemporary regional

Sur Arte Gastronômica

Sur Arte Gastronômica · Jatiúca

Contemporary regional cooking built on Alagoas produce, with a wine list.

Tip: The house changed format and now sits alongside 'Sur' on the next block: check the door before you sit down.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

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Wine bar

Grand Cru

Grand Cru · Ponta Verde

A French-Italian bistro and wine bar on Rua Engenheiro Mário de Gusmão.

Tip: A long wine list by the city's standards. A good call for a rainy night on the shoreline.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

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Photogenic Italian

Restaurante Maria Antonieta

Restaurante Maria Antonieta · Jatiúca

Jatiúca's Italian, with pasta, risotto and pizza, plus a much-photographed cafe-bistro side.

Tip: It works as both restaurant and cafe: a specialty coffee shop in the morning, a cantina at night.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

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Neighborhood French

Le Corbu

Le Corbu · Ponta Verde

Neighborhood French cooking in Ponta Verde, short menu and a small room.

Tip: One of the city's 'special occasion' addresses: book, and go early.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Boards and charcuterie

Oliva

Oliva · Ponta Verde

Charcuterie, sharing boards and produce-led cooking on Rua Durval Guimarães.

Tip: A good place to start the evening: a board, a beer, then the shoreline.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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SAIKŌ Katsu Sando Shop

SAIKŌ • Katsu Sando Shop · Ponta Verde

Japanese katsu sando in sandwich form, the newest bite in Ponta Verde.

Tip: Small and modern: the most 'new Maceió' thing on the shoreline. Open afternoons and evenings.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

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Sushi off this coast

Ina Sushi Bar

Ina Sushi Bar · Jatiúca

Jatiúca sushi using fish from the Alagoas coast, open every evening.

Tip: Open 6pm-11:30pm every day. Ask for whatever came in from the day's catch before ordering the standard combo.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Afro lunch

Odara

Odara · Jatiúca

Afro-Brazilian cooking at lunch, Thursday to Sunday, in the same house as Tamarineira.

Tip: Open Thursday to Sunday only, noon-4pm: at night the same kitchen becomes Tamarineira.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

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Same door, other menu

Tamarineira

Tamarineira · Jatiúca

The night-time face of the same house: Afro-Brazilian cooking, Thursday to Sunday.

Tip: Thursday to Sunday 5:30pm-11pm. It is the same address as Odara on another shift: not a mistake on the map.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

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The lagoon in town

Massagueirinha Bar e Restaurante

Massagueirinha Bar e Restaurante · Ponta Verde

Shellfish and lagoon fish on Av. Deputado José Lages, the restaurant spine of Ponta Verde.

Tip: The name is a nod to Massagueira, which is over in Marechal Deodoro: here you eat the same thing without an hour behind the wheel.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · Avenida Deputado José Lages 1105

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Fish from the lagoon

Bar da Boa Petiscaria

Bar da Boa Petiscaria · Ponta Grossa

A fish petiscaria on the lagoon side of the city, far from the tourist shoreline.

Tip: Ponta Grossa and Vergel do Lago are lagoon-side Maceió: cheap fish and plastic chairs. Go at midday.

🚇 Terminal Vergel do Lago (city bus) + 14 min walk

Featured in: OSM · cuisine=fish · reverse-geo: Ponta Grossa, Maceió

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Portuguese in Trapiche

A Casa Portuguesa

A Casa Portuguesa · Trapiche da Barra

Salt cod and Portuguese cooking in Trapiche, next to Estádio Rei Pelé.

Tip: This is the food stop of Trapiche da Barra: handy on a match day at the Rei Pelé, a 10-minute walk away.

🚇 Terminal do Trapiche (city bus) + 8 min walk

Featured in: OSM · amenity=restaurant · reverse-geo: Trapiche da Barra, Maceió

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Peixe na telha

Restaurante O Peixarão

Restaurante O Peixarão · Jatiúca

Grilled fish and peixe na telha on Av. Dr. Júlio Marques Luz.

Tip: Peixe na telha - fish baked on a clay roof tile - is the dish that barely shows up on blog lists but is always on local tables.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

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Classic carne de sol

Parmegianno (Pajuçara)

Parmegianno · Pajuçara

Carne de sol with queijo coalho and fish with salad, right on the beach avenue.

Tip: Heads up: the bathing-water point 'frente ao Restaurante Parmegiano' in Pajuçara came back IMPRÓPRIO on Oct 25 2026. The food is good, just do not swim directly out front.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 24 min walk

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Rodízio

Churrascaria Sal e Brasa

Churrascaria Sal e Brasa · Cruz das Almas

An all-you-can-eat grill up the north shoreline, with a buffet and a family dining room.

Tip: Open until midnight on Saturdays. It is the city's big churrascaria: good for groups and kids.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 15 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · salebrasa.com.br

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Alagoas beer

Tapanacê Brewpub

Tapanacê Brewpub · Jatiúca

A brewery with regional Alagoas cooking on Av. Antônio Gomes de Barros.

Tip: It shares an address with Mingula Cervejaria: half a block that works as a beer hub.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · cuisine=regional, Jatiúca

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Feet in the sand

Kanoa Beach Bar

Kanoa Beach Bar · Pajuçara

A beach bar with tables on the sand, grilled octopus and live music.

Tip: The best-known barraca on the shoreline. Live music most afternoons: get there before 4pm for a front table.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 30 min walk

Featured in: OSM · kanoabeach.com.br · dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026

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Sunset with live music

Lopana

Lopana · Pajuçara

A big shoreline barraca with char-grilled octopus, caipirinha and a sunset set.

Tip: Grilled octopus is the house order. The November sunset lands around 5:30pm.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · lopana.com.br · dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026

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Carne de sol petisco

MAIKAI Maceió

MAIKAI Maceió · Jatiúca

A Jatiúca petisco bar with escondidinho de carne de sol and a young crowd.

Tip: Escondidinho de carne de sol with macaxeira is the Alagoas petisco par excellence: here it comes out right.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: viciadaemviajar 16/04/2026 · OSM

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Jazz in the old town

Rex Jazz Bar

Rex Jazz Bar · Jaraguá

Live jazz in a Jaraguá sobrado: the old town's cultural night out.

Tip: It is the best reason to come down to Jaraguá after dark. The line-up changes weekly: check their social media first.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min walk

Featured in: OSM · Rua Sá e Albuquerque 675, Jaraguá

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Beer courtyard

Quintal do Hop

Quintal do Hop · Jaraguá

A beer courtyard in the old town, with craft taps and tables in the open air.

Tip: All open-air: in November, with the dry weather, it is the best night out in Jaraguá.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde)

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Food park

Truck Zone

Truck Zone · Jatiúca

An indoor food park with a dozen kitchens: Korean, nordestina, Japanese, burgers.

Tip: The easy way out with kids or an undecided group: everyone eats their own thing and there is a play area.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026 · viciadaemviajar 16/04/2026

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Tapioca on the shoreline

Tapioca da Pajuçara

Tapioca da Pajuçara · Pajuçara

Tapioca made to order on the shoreline pavement: queijo coalho, carne de sol, coconut.

Tip: In Alagoas tapioca is breakfast and dinner, not dessert. Order it with queijo coalho and carne de sol.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 20 min walk

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Full tapiocaria

Tapioca Maria Bonita

Tapioca Maria Bonita · Ponta Verde

A tapiocaria with cuscuz and gluten-free options, on Rua Machado Lemos.

Tip: They do cuscuz de milho as well as tapioca: both are proper Nordeste breakfast.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: dicasdeviagem 18/09/2026 · OSM cuisine=tapioca

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Costela de forno

Porteira do Gaúcho Costelaria

Porteira do Gaúcho Costelaria · Antares

Clay-oven short rib up in the high city: a long lunch and an enormous platter.

Tip: Open 11am to 4pm only: this is lunch, not dinner. It is a long way from the shoreline, so go by app.

🚇 Terminal de Ouro Preto (city bus) + 21 min walk

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Station canteen

Gigi Restaurante

Gigi Restaurante · Bom Parto

A regional lunch room next to the Bom Parto VLT station, open during the day.

Tip: Open Monday to Saturday 8am-6pm, at the end of the Linha Verde. Keep the context in mind: Bom Parto is one of the five neighborhoods in the subsidence zone and is partly evacuated. The shops on the station block are still trading, but this is not a neighborhood for aimless wandering.

🚇 Estação Bom Parto (Linha Verde)

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Pajuçara pizza

Piccola Villa

Piccola Villa · Pajuçara

The pizzeria on Rua Jangadeiros Alagoanos, a neighborhood classic.

Tip: Recommended by local readers more than by guidebooks: this is the pizza of the people who live there.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 26 min walk

Featured in: viciadaemviajar 16/04/2026 (comentarios) · OSM

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Street espetinho

Rio Sampa Espetinho

Rio Sampa Espetinho · Ponta Verde

Char-grilled espetinhos Thursday to Saturday on Av. Professor Vital Barbosa.

Tip: The queijo coalho skewer is the Alagoas beach snack: here it comes off the coals, not off a griddle.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · instagram.com/rio_sampa

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Open 24 hours

Guaraná da Praia

Guaraná da Praia · Ponta Verde

Juices, açaí and Amazon guaraná at a stand open 24 hours on the shoreline.

Tip: Open 24/7: the late-night rescue of the Ponta Verde shoreline.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · opening_hours 24/7

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Oysters and caldinhos

Ele & Ela e As Ostras

Ele & Ela e As Ostras · Jatiúca

An oyster and seafood-broth house on Rua Empresário Carlos da Silva Nogueira.

Tip: The caldinhos - sururu, feijão, camarão - are the Alagoas late-afternoon aperitif.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

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Caranguejo

Caranguejola Bar

Caranguejola Bar · Jatiúca

Jatiúca's crab bar: caranguejo with farofa and very cold beer.

Tip: Crab is eaten with a mallet and your hands: ask for a bib and do not wear a white shirt.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 30 min walk

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Specialty coffee in Maceió

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Café Farol

Café Farol · Mirante São Gonçalo, Farol

Filter coffee and bolos with the best view in Maceió, up at Mirante de São Gonçalo.

Tip: Open 8am-noon and 2pm-6pm every day. The corner table looks over the whole shoreline: go before 9am or after 4pm.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 12 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · cafefarol.com.br

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Specialty in the old town

Café do Sobrado

Café do Sobrado · Pajuçara

Specialty coffee in a historic sobrado, with exhibitions and saraus, where Jaraguá meets Pajuçara.

Tip: Open Tuesday to Saturday 4pm-8pm, afternoons only. It is Jaraguá's cultural outing with real coffee attached.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 6 min walk

Featured in: Jornal Extra 30/09/2025 · OSM opening_hours

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Local third wave

Nakaffa

Nakaffa · Jatiúca

Roasters and filter methods: the city's best-known specialty coffee shop.

Tip: They work with selected beans and several brewing methods, not just espresso. Order a pour-over and compare it with the padaria's.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: Jornal Extra 30/09/2025 · OSM shop=coffee

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Pajuçara brunch

Marina Coffee Shop

Marina Coffee Shop · Pajuçara

Specialty coffee with tables indoors and out, a block from the Pajuçara shoreline.

Tip: The only specialty coffee shop you can walk to from the Pajuçara hotels. Good for a slow brunch.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 17 min walk

Featured in: Jornal Extra 30/09/2025 · OSM shop=coffee

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Coffee with a sea view

Tom Café

Tom Café · Jatiúca

A seafront coffee shop on Av. Álvaro Otacílio, with coffee, cakes and breakfast.

Tip: Tuesday to Saturday noon-7pm and Sunday 8am-3pm: Sunday breakfast is the moment to come.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · tomcafe.com.br

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Neighborhood coffee

Vila Rosa Café

Vila Rosa Café · Ponta Verde

A neighborhood coffee shop on Rua Desportista Humberto Guimarães, using local beans.

Tip: It sits on the block of galetos and bars: handy for morning coffee before the beach.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 32 min walk

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Alagoas brand

Café São Braz

Café São Braz · Ponta Verde

The most traditional coffee brand in Alagoas, with its own shop in Ponta Verde.

Tip: São Braz is the state's historic roastery: this is the coffee people drink at home in Maceió, not the third-wave kind.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 32 min walk

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Ponta Verde breakfast

Hibiscus

Hibiscus · Ponta Verde

Coffee and breakfast on Rua Durval Guimarães, with bread and bolos made that day.

Tip: The breakfast option when the hotel charges too much: bread, café coado and fruit for a fraction.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: caferia.com.br · OSM amenity=cafe

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Wholegrain

Nutrigrão

Nutrigrão · Ponta Verde

Coffee, granola and wholegrain baking in Ponta Verde.

Tip: The light alternative in a city of deep-frying. Opens early.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: caferia.com.br · OSM amenity=cafe

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Coffee in the high city

Cafeteria do Marcelo

Cafeteria do Marcelo · Tabuleiro dos Martins

A regional coffee shop in the high city, with café coado and homemade bolos.

Tip: Monday to Saturday 8am-6pm. It is far from the shoreline but it is the best-rated neighborhood coffee shop in Maceió.

🚇 Terminal do Osman Loureiro (city bus) + 20 min walk

Featured in: caferia.com.br · OSM opening_hours

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Coffee + sorvete

Verus Cafeteria e Sorveteria

Verus Cafeteria e Sorveteria · Santos Dumont

Coffee and fruit ice cream under the same roof, up in the high city.

Tip: It pairs specialty coffee with Nordeste fruit ice creams: cajá, graviola, siriguela.

🚇 Terminal do Osman Loureiro (city bus) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · cuisine=coffee_shop;ice_cream

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Jatiúca padaria

Bello Pane Delicatesse

Bello Pane Delicatesse · Jatiúca

Jatiúca's bakery-delicatessen, open 6am to 8pm, every day.

Tip: It opens at 6am: this is the real Maceió breakfast, pão francês and café coado standing at the counter.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Shoreline padaria

Panaderia Ponta Verde

Panaderia Ponta Verde · Ponta Verde

The padaria on Rua Deputado José Lages, open 6am to 9:30pm.

Tip: Long hours (Monday to Saturday 6am-9:30pm, Sunday from 6:30am): breakfast, afternoon snack and bread for the evening.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Pajuçara padaria

Panificação Glória

Panificação Glória · Pajuçara

A neighborhood padaria on Rua Jangadeiros Alagoanos, two blocks from the shoreline.

Tip: Where the Pajuçara that is not a hotel has breakfast: café coado, pão na chapa and queijo coalho.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 18 min walk

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Neighborhood bread

Padaria Primavera

Padaria Primavera · Ponta da Terra

A classic Pajuçara padaria on Rua Domingos Lordsleen.

Tip: Ask for bolo de goma or cuscuz if there is any left: the Nordeste's cassava-starch and corn breakfasts.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 15 min walk

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Salgados of the day

Padaria Alteza

Padaria Alteza · Ponta Verde

The padaria on Rua General João Saleiro Pitão, with bolos and salgados made that day.

Tip: The morning coxinha and pastel are the local snack. Cheap and quick.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

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Jatiúca padaria

Padaria Jatiúca

Padaria Jatiúca · Jatiúca

Jatiúca's go-to padaria, with a bread counter and coffee.

Tip: Maceió's padarias serve café coado in a small cup, not espresso: that is the local coffee.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 29 min walk

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Pão e café coado

Padaria Maria Alagoana

Padaria Maria Alagoana · Ponta Verde

A corner padaria with a name like a manifesto, up on Av. Professor Sandoval Arroxelas.

Tip: Breakfast in Maceió is pão francês on the griddle, queijo coalho and café coado in a small cup: order it that way, not just 'um café'.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=bakery, Ponta Verde

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Afternoon doces

Ruca Confeitaria

Ruca Confeitaria · Ponta Verde

A Ponta Verde patisserie with cakes, doces and afternoon coffee.

Tip: The milk and coconut doces are the Nordeste's way of finishing a meal: cocada, doce de banana, bolo de macaxeira.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

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Bolo by the slice

Dom Bollo

Dom Bollo · Ponta Verde

A patisserie on Rua Durval Guimarães, selling bolos and cakes by the slice.

Tip: Bolo de goma, bolo de macaxeira and bolo de rolo share the display case: the rolo is from Pernambuco, the other two really are from here.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

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Nordeste fruit

Sorveteria Bali (Jatiúca)

Sorveteria Bali · Jatiúca

An Alagoas ice cream shop built on Nordeste fruit: cajá, siriguela, graviola.

Tip: Open until midnight (12:30am Friday and Saturday). Cajá, siriguela, mangaba and graviola are genuinely local fruit; umbu belongs more to the dry inland.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · sorvetesbali.com.br

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Ice cream on the shoreline

Sorveteria Bali (Pajuçara)

Sorveteria Bali · Pajuçara

The Pajuçara branch of the Alagoas ice cream shop, on Av. Dr. Antônio Gouveia.

Tip: It is right on the beach avenue: the compulsory ice cream stop on the shoreline walk.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min walk

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Açaí on the shoreline

Açaí Concept (Pajuçara)

Açaí Concept · Pajuçara

Amazonian açaí served thick and cold, the Alagoas chain you find all along the shoreline.

Tip: Up in Belém açaí is eaten savoury with fish, but here it comes sweet with granola: it is an afternoon snack, not a dessert.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 10 min walk

Featured in: OSM · brand Açaí Concept

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Coffee + natural food

Bene Coffee & Natural Food

Bene Coffee & Natural Food · Pajuçara

Coffee and natural food on Av. Dr. Antônio Gouveia, right on the shoreline.

Tip: One of the few light breakfasts with real coffee on the Pajuçara hotel strip.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 15 min walk

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Shopping in Maceió: where to shop

A real market

Mercado da Produção

Mercado da Produção · Levada

Maceió's big market: fish, spices, herbs, meat and cooking along the aisles.

Tip: The fish and the spice sections are the ones worth your time. Go before 10am: after that the fish is gone and the heat sets in. It is a 7-minute walk from the VLT's Estação Mercado.

🚇 Terminal Mercado da Produção (city bus) + 3 min walk

Featured in: OSM · operator Prefeitura de Maceió

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Alagoas crafts

Mercado do Artesanato

Mercado do Artesanato · Levada

The Centro's crafts market: filé, ceramics, straw and woodwork from all over Alagoas.

Tip: Real filé and factory filé sit side by side here. The handmade kind shows knots on the reverse, uneven weave and a price that says so: ask who embroidered it.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde)

Featured in: INPI · IG do Bordado Filé 2016 · OSM

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Old town market

Mercado Público de Jaraguá

Mercado Público de Jaraguá · Jaraguá

A small market in the old town, local and with no tourists.

Tip: It is the market where people from Jaraguá still shop: fish, fruit and lunch out of the pot.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 12 min walk

Featured in: OSM · amenity=marketplace

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Shoreline fair

Feira de Artesanato da Pajuçara

Feira de Artesanato da Pajuçara · Pajuçara

The shoreline crafts fair, right by the Pavilhão, with filé, hammocks and souvenirs.

Tip: This is the tourist stall par excellence: prices are higher than at the Mercado do Artesanato downtown and higher than at Pontal da Barra.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 25 min walk

Featured in: OSM · amenity=marketplace, Av. Dr. Antônio Gouveia

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Shoreline pavilion

Pavilhão do Artesanato

Pavilhão do Artesanato · Pajuçara

A crafts pavilion on the Pajuçara shoreline, with filé, ceramics and renda.

Tip: If you only have one afternoon, you see everything here at once; if you want to buy filé well, go to Pontal da Barra.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 27 min walk

Featured in: OSM · Av. Dr. Antônio Gouveia 1447

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Filé workshop

Gabriel Artesanato

Gabriel Artesanato · Pontal da Barra

A filé workshop-shop in Pontal da Barra, on Av. Alípio Barbosa da Silva.

Tip: Buying at the workshop, in the neighborhood where the embroidery is done, is the difference between a piece with the geographical seal and a factory souvenir.

🚇 Terminal Pontal da Barra (city bus) + 9 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=craft, Pontal da Barra

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Straight from the rendeira

Tatiana Rendeira

Tatiana rendeira · Pontal da Barra

The home of a filé embroiderer: you see the frame and buy straight from her.

Tip: Ask how long a piece takes: a large filé tablecloth can take weeks. That is what the price is paying for.

🚇 Terminal Pontal da Barra (city bus) + 10 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=art, Pontal da Barra

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The oldest one

Maceió Shopping

Maceió Shopping · Mangabeiras

The city's first mall, on Av. Comendador Gustavo Paiva, never rebranded.

Tip: It turned 35 in 2024 and still carries the same name: there was no rebrand. It backs onto Parque da Mulher.

🚇 Terminal Rodoviário de Maceió (city bus) + 20 min walk

Featured in: Movimento Econômico 11/04/2024 · OSM

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2025 expansion

Parque Shopping Maceió

Parque Shopping Maceió · Cruz das Almas

The big mall up north, with an expansion that opened in November 2025.

Tip: It is still called Parque Shopping Maceió even though its own website uses the slug 'maceioparkshopping': the official name did not change. The expansion brought in brands new to the state.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 7 min walk

Featured in: maceioparqueshopping.com.br · SMAG 11/2025

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With an indoor park

Shopping Pátio Maceió

Shopping Pátio Maceió · Cidade Universitária

A high-city mall with an indoor theme park and cinemas.

Tip: Av. Menino Marcelo 3800, Cidade Universitária: the mall of the upper neighborhoods, fewer tourists and local prices. Park Lima is inside for the kids.

🚇 Terminal Salvador Lyra (city bus) + 9 min walk

Featured in: ABRASCE · Tribuna Hoje 29/07/2026 · grupodicas (endereço)

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Cinema in Farol

Shopping Farol

Shopping Farol · Farol

A mall on Av. Fernandes Lima with the Cine Premium, in the heart of Farol.

Tip: It keeps the name Shopping Farol and the cinema is the Cine Premium; it is the most central of the big malls and trades normally. The pin falls on the edge of the Pinheiro polygon: the mall is NOT closed off, but the boundary of the subsidence zone runs a few blocks away.

🚇 Terminal Sanatório - Pinheiro (city bus) + 8 min walk

Featured in: OSM · Av. Fernandes Lima 2551

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Shoreline arcade

Shopping Lions

Shopping Lions · Pajuçara

A small shopping arcade beside Praça Lions, just steps from the shoreline.

Tip: It is the arcade you come down to from the Pajuçara hotels for a charger or a swimsuit: useful, not touristy.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 26 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=mall

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Ponta Verde arcade

Galeria Boulevard

Galeria Boulevard · Ponta Verde

An arcade with shops, homeware and food on Av. Engenheiro Mário de Gusmão.

Tip: Mário de Gusmão is the shopping street of Ponta Verde: arcade, boutiques and homeware across ten blocks.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 32 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=mall

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National beachwear

Água de Coco

Água de Coco · Jatiúca

Designer Brazilian beachwear, a national label with a store in Jatiúca.

Tip: It is the Brazilian beachwear label with its own São Paulo runway show: buying it here costs the same, without the tourist mark-up.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 30 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=clothes, Jatiúca

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Beachwear

NOA Beachwear

NOA Beachwear · Jatiúca

Beachwear on Av. Dr. Antônio Gomes de Barros, in the boutique district.

Tip: Jatiúca is where the beachwear shops cluster: you can compare three labels without moving the car.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=clothes

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Surf and beach

Beach Company

Beach Company · Ponta Verde

A surf, beach and swimwear shop on Rua Engenheiro Mário de Gusmão.

Tip: The genuinely useful buy: water shoes for the reef, which you will not find down on the sand.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=clothes

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Brazilian fashion

Maria Filó

Maria Filó · Ponta Verde

Brazilian womenswear with a store on Rua Engenheiro Mário de Gusmão.

Tip: One of the Brazilian labels that sells best in the Nordeste: tropical prints and linen.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=clothes

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Luxury accessories

Plátanos

Plátanos · Ponta Verde

Luxury accessories and jewellery on Rua Durval Guimarães.

Tip: Listed on the map as a luxury accessories store: the highest end of the shoreline.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 8 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · description 'Acessórios de luxo'

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High-street shopping

Riachuelo Rua do Comércio

Riachuelo · Centro

The Brazilian high-street fashion chain on the shopping street of the historic Centro.

Tip: Monday to Friday 8am-6pm and Saturday until 2pm: Maceió's Centro shuts early and does not open on Sundays.

🚇 Estação Maceió (Linha Verde) + 7 min walk

Featured in: OSM opening_hours · Rua do Comércio 257

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Alagoas chain

Casa Vieira Centro

Casa Vieira - Centro de Maceió · Centro

An Alagoas department store in the commercial heart of the Centro.

Tip: Casa Vieira is a local chain, not a national one: this is where ordinary Maceió shops.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 6 min walk

Featured in: OSM · casavieira.com.br

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Genuinely low-cost

Shopping Popular

Shopping Popular · Centro

A low-cost arcade on Rua do Livramento: electronics, cheap clothes and accessories.

Tip: It is the Centro's street trade brought under one roof. A good place for a cheap charger or adapter.

🚇 Estação Mercado (Linha Verde) + 4 min walk

Featured in: OSM · Rua do Livramento 468

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Alagoas loom work

Encanto do Tear

Encanto do Tear · Mangabeiras

A loom and weaving shop on Av. Dr. Mário Nunes Vieira.

Tip: Loom weaving and filé are the two textile crafts of Alagoas: this is where you see the first one.

🚇 Terminal de Cruz das Almas (city bus) + 30 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=variety_store

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Fabrics

Casa do Patchwork

Casa do Patchwork · Jatiúca

A fabric and patchwork shop, useful if you are after raw Alagoas cloth.

Tip: If you are going to buy filé, stop here first to learn what cloth good embroidery is worked on.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 9 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=fabric

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Alagoas letters

Livraria Nobel

Livraria Nobel · Ponta Verde

The Ponta Verde bookshop: Alagoas authors, Graciliano and Jorge de Lima.

Tip: Alagoas gave us Graciliano Ramos, Jorge de Lima and Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, the dictionary man: ask for the local section.

🚇 Estação Jaraguá (Linha Verde) + 7 min by taxi/app

Featured in: OSM · shop=books

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Havaianas

Mundo das Havaianas

Mundo das havaianas · Cidade Universitária

A store given over to Havaianas, Brazil's national flip-flop.

Tip: Havaianas cost a third in Brazil of what they fetch abroad: the obvious purchase.

🚇 Terminal Graciliano Ramos (city bus) + 16 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=shoes

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Neighborhood prices

Doce Mar Moda Praia

Doce Mar Moda Praia · Feitosa

Beachwear at local prices, away from the tourist circuit.

Tip: Up in the high neighborhoods the same swimsuit costs half what it does in Jatiúca.

🚇 Terminal Novo Mundo (city bus) + 16 min walk

Featured in: OSM · shop=clothes

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