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Jardim Botânico Adolpho Ducke
Spanning over 100 sq km on the eastern edge of Manaus, this massive park and protected area is reportedly the world’s largest urban forest. Its namesake was an Italian-born botanist and entomologist who spent decades studying the Amazon rain forest, especially its complex tree systems. The park has long been used for ecological research, but the city is working hard to make it accessible to casual visitors too. There’s a network of eight short trails (3km in all) and plans to build a nature museum, observation tower, and canopy-level walkway – even an aquarium – are well underway. To get there and back, take bus 448 ‘Ciudad de Deus’ from Praça da Matriz; it’s a solid 90 m…
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Museu do Seringal Vila Paraíso
This museum is a 25-minute boat ride from Ponta Negra, which is itself a 20-minute bus ride from the center. Fortunately, the trip there is part of the fun, and can be combined with a stop at Praia da Lua, Manaus’ best beach. Guided tours include an opulent rubber baron’s townhouse and a replica rubber-tapper shack, and walking a short trail to see how rubber trees are tapped, and the latex processed in a thatched smokehouse. It’s a bit gimmicky but still interesting, and is the only place in Manaus to learn about this all-important history.
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Igreja São Sebastião
Although it’s by no means Manaus’ largest or oldest church – the cement block exterior belies as much – Igreja São Sebastião has a beautifully restored interior (completed to mark the 100-year anniversary of the arrival of the Capuchin Franciscan order) that is well worth a peek. A short nave gives way to the church’s opulent altar, with surprisingly dramatic paintings of saints and priests presiding over earthly battles. The handy location doesn’t hurt; it’s opposite the Teatro Amazonas facing the plaza.
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Parque Senador Jéfferson Péres
Known as Parque Jéfferson, this new Y-shaped city park has grass, benches, and a small orchid house, plus food stands in colonial-style gazebos and ample night-time lighting. This area was once a gritty favela (slum), and the park’s creation was not without controversy, requiring scores of homes to be torn down, and hundreds of residents relocated. A rotten smell wafting up from the creek running through the park is the main drawback.
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Galeria do Largo
Right on Praça São Sebastião, Galeria do Largo has a modern-minded rotation of art exhibits, from contemporary paintings to a miniature scale model of the city.
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