A 1900's theater in perfect shape. Guided visits for US$1.00 !
Very bad organisation and service but worth visiting. The place itself is very interesting bud you will need patience and a generous attitude with misinformation about programs and schedule.
Im not a big fan of those kind of thing normally, but that teatre is nice and worth good there for a little tour.
Inaugurated in 1910, it has an art noveau front, combining colorful stained glass with a metalic structure imported from Scotland. There's a guided tour you can take to visit the building interior, with its belle epoque friezes, cabins and stairs and a beautiful garden (project by Burle Marx). Check the opening time before actually going there, as we were not able to catch the guided tour due to some kind of event taking place on a holiday.
Beautiful theater, but lacks preservation. Visit it with a guide (costs about US$ 2). And watch out the place, Fortaleza's downtown can be dangerous, especially if you are alone.
The place is beautiful but is not in very good condition. And besides that the sidewalk around it is always dirty and smells very bad. Shame.
This is a +100 years old building and very pretty for a visit, especially if an event is being held there at night.However, be careful of the surroundings since it is right in the middle of downtown, with a dodgy piazza at the front.
The theater hosted the opening ceremony of an important event, so it was possible to walk through the place, see its many balconies, sit on its straw chairs, and watch an orchestra and a choir, just to realize the acoustics could have been much better.Anyway, the place is really beautiful, and deserves to be visited, because of its remarkable inner facade, combining stained glass and metal, probably the most recognizable building in Fortaleza, and one of the most original art-nouveau constructions in Brazil. The side garden, with its carefully kept palm trees, is a good place to stop for a while.The surroundings, on the city center, are supposedly a dangeours place, but it seemed to be more or less like the Teatro Municipal area, in Rio, or the Teatro Castro Alves area, in Salvador, would be at night: desert and perhaps risky if you walk around careless.
The wrought iron theatre was built in Britain in the Nineteenth Century and shipped in pieces to Fortaleza where it was re-assembled. It is everything a tropical theatre should be. There are free guided tours (in Portuguese).The theatre is close to the city's largest flee market.