Porto Alegre
Worth seeing in and around Porto Alegre
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 05Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Brazilian federal university based in Porto Alegre
1.1 km · Wikipedia - 06Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Private non-profit Catholic university in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
6 km · Wikipedia - 07Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre
University in Porto Alegre, Brazil
900 m · Wikipedia - 08Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Mother of God, Porto Alegre
Church in Porto Alegre, Brazil
100 m · Wikipedia - 09
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Porto Alegre
- Airports
- Porto Alegre-Salgado Filho (POA), 7 km
- Stations
- Salgado Filho Porto Alegre International Airport, 7.1 km · Mauá Pier, 600 m · Port of Porto Alegre, 600 m
- Florianópolis → Porto Alegre376 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · R$300–460
- Navegantes → Porto AlegreTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Curitiba → Porto Alegre547 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · R$370–570
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Porto Alegre
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Porto Alegre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundremarks |- |infant || free || must pass under or over the turnstile |- |student || R$ 2.40 || must use a special TRI card |- |adult || R$ 4.80 || second trip is R$ 2.40 (with TRI) |- |resident senior (60 yr+) || free || must use a special TRI card |- |senior (65 yr+) || free || any document proving age is enough |} The Lotação is an alternative transportation system, with fewer lines, served by minibuses with up to 20 people in capacity.
- Get aroundAll minibuses are air conditioned and some of them have reclining seats.
- Get aroundThe minibuses are easily recognized by their "red, white and blue" color.
From Wikivoyage: Porto Alegre, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Porto Alegre – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is 14 km from Canoas, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cavalhadaneighborhood in Porto Alegre7.5 km
- Cristal, Porto Alegreneighborhood in Porto Alegre city6.1 km
- Centro, Porto Alegreneighborhood in Porto Alegre300 m
- Bom Fimneighborhood in Porto Alegre1.7 km
- Cidade Baixa, Porto Alegreneighborhood in Porto Alegre1.3 km
- Camaquãneighborhood in Porto Alegre8.2 km