Câmara Cascudo House - Natal Historic Center

Who goes up the hill from Riverside, towards the Upper Town (Cidade Alta), faces a fine house built back in 1900, imposing and well maintained, constructed like a cabin where lived the writer and historian Cascudo. For too long the "Solar dos Cascudos" was closed, hiding cultural relics on the writer's life.

It is a unique opportunity for those who want to unravel the mysteries of the genius, where he lived and wrote most of his books. The atmosphere of the house brings us back to the time when Cascudo was producing his work from those walls.

On entering the house, a bronze plaque warns: "Here, Luis da Camara Cascudo served the Rio Grande do Norte by intellectual work more noble and more constant than the state has ever known," a tribute to the Institute of History and Geography of Rio Grande do North, stressing the importance of Cascudo.

The library was the room of the house where the historian spent most of his time. On the walls, notes written by nationally known scholars and famous people who visited him at home, leaving a signed message, as Monteiro Lobato, Mario de Andrade, Assis Chateaubriant, Juscelino Kubitschek, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Dorival Caymmi, Djalma Maranhão, Sylvio Pedrosa and many others. It was on that wall that Ary Barroso wrote a compass Watercolor of Brazil, followed by a dedication: "To genius and friend."

Inside the library there are colonial furniture, collections of Indian art, folk art, foreign art, African ethnography, and a collection of religious art.

The house was built in the shape of a cottage in 1900 by industrialist Alfonso Saraiva Maranhão. Today, despite some minor reforms, the building still retains its original features, such as deployment on the alignment of the street. In addition to its own architecture the house keeps precious collections accumulated by Cascudo throughout his life.

It is one of Natal Historic Center oldest buildings, an area that comprises the Cidade Alta and Ribeira neighbourhoods.

Visitation:
Operation: 3 rd to Saturday, from 9 to 17h.
Box Office: closes at 16:30 h.
Not open to visitors on Sundays and Mondays.
Ticket Price: $ 2.00 (two dollars)
Students pay half-price.
The ticket can only be paid in cash, with no advance ticket sales.
Address:
Cascudo Avenue, 377, Cidade Alta
Natal, RN, CEP: 59025-280
Phone: (84) 3222-3293 and (84) 3221-0131

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