Pousada Alcobaça has been praised by Brazilian and international press and is recommended by travel guides like "Quatro Rodas" in Brazil, and "Lonely Planet" and "Fodor´s".
Just one hour drive from Rio and only 15 minutes from Petrópolis historical center, the inn Pousada da Alcobaça is one of the most charming places on the mountains around Rio. It is a 1914 mansion surrounded by gardens with roses, bromeliads, orchids, wild raspberries and aromatic herbs.
The owners, whose family built the house at the beginning of the last century, maintain the property watching every detail personally. A tradition of the Pousada is the flexible time schedule: guests can sleep late and may take breakfast anytime. The restaurant, open to the public, offers an authentic cuisine du terroir, supplied by a large vegetable garden and orchard in the property.
Rooms
Each of the eleven rooms has a different decoration. Besides the antique furniture, inclined wooden ceilings, verandas and windows framed by jasmin, wisteria and other creeping plants, contribute to the charms of the atmosphere.
All rooms have:
Private Bathrooms
Hair Drier
Cable TV and DVD
Heating
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Figueira
With inclined wooden ceiling and a veranda with a view of the century old figueira tree. -
República
The larger of the rooms on the ground floor has a romantic old poster bed and a bay window. -
Alcobaça
With the inclined wooden ceiling, a veranda with a view of the garden and of the Alcobaça mountains -
Bosque
With inclined wooden ceiling and a view of trees and bromeliads -
Chaminé
With a D. Maria I antique double bed, and a view of the gardens. -
Ipê
With two single beds, an antique chest of drawers, inclined ceiling and a view of the pond and of the ipê tree that blooms in the spring with its bright yellow flowers. -
Escada
With two single beds, inclined wooden ceiling. Through jasmin and wisteria framed windows, a view of the stairway that leads to the pond in the garden. -
Três Janelas
With a view to the bromeliads garden. -
Degrau
Has Belle Époque furniture and a view to the front garden. -
Frente
With windows openning to the front garden and a bathroom with English tiles of the original house bathrooms. This is the most charming room according to a NYT photographer who visited ... -
Armários
With windows openning to a patio. -
MOINHO
A cottage in Mill House
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Location
Pousada da Alcobaça is located in Petrópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro, 80 kmfrom the city of Rio de Janeiro, in an altitude of 842 m at the mountain range called Serra dos Orgãos. The average temperature in the summer is 18º C. The town of Petrópolis, summer resort of our Emperor a century ago, has several sites of historical interest to be seen. The town can be reached in 15 minutes from Pousada da Alcobaça , situated in the District of Correias, close to other Districts like Itaipava and Nogueira, all in the old trail to Minas Gerais, the former gold mining region.
Guests arriving in Rio by plane at the airports of Galeão or Santos Dumond may ask us for transportation by car or van.
Guests arriving in Rio by plane at the airports of Galeão or Santos Dumond may ask us for transportation by car or van.
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