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Top 10 sights in Natal

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   Ponta Negra

   A beach and neighbourhood in Natal below Morro do Careca, a bare dune a hundred metres high that runs straight into the sea. The dune has been fenced off since climbing eroded it; the beach and the boardwalk below carry most of the city's evening life.

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   Genipabu

   A beach on the coast north of Natal. High dunes run behind it, and the buggy rides over those dunes are what it is known for.

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   Our Lady of the Presentation Cathedral, Natal

   The Catholic cathedral of Natal, completed in 1988. It is a conical concrete structure and is counted among the examples of modern church architecture in Brazil.

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   Forte dos Reis Magos

   A fort at the mouth of the Potengi at Natal, begun in 1598. It is built on a star plan, and its construction was the beginning of the city.

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   Natal City Park

   An urban park in Natal. It conserves surviving Atlantic forest and has walking trails reachable on foot from the city centre.

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   Alberto Maranhão Theatre

   A theatre in Natal opened in 1904 and rebuilt in art nouveau, with an Italianate auditorium in three tiers. It remains the main stage of Rio Grande do Norte.

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   Redinha beach

   A beach district north of Natal. A fishing village survives in it, and it is widely known for the row of crab restaurants along the shore.

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   Ponta Negra

   The seafront quarter at the south end of Natal, where the Morro do Careca — a dune over a hundred metres high, bald sand between two walls of forest — drops straight to the sea. Climbing it has been forbidden since the 1990s to stop the sand slipping.

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   Dunas de Natal State Park

   A state park in Natal. It conserves the dunes and Atlantic forest on the edge of the city and is among the largest urban parks in Brazil.

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    Via Costeira

    A road running along the coast at Natal. It crosses the dune belt and links the hotel strip to the centre, with the sea in view the whole way.

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   Historic center of Natal

   The old town of Natal. It took shape at the end of the sixteenth century around the fort, and its squares, colonial churches and former government buildings survive.

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   Cemitério do Alecrim

   A cemetery laid out at Natal in 1856. It was made in haste during a cholera epidemic and holds the graves of the city's nineteenth-century figures.

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