Franco da Rocha

Franco da Rocha is a city in the São Paulo metro area, São Paulo state. There is basically one reason to visit the city: the Hospital Psquiátrico Juqueri, a late-XIX century psychiatric complex with a quite disturbing history.

A building of the Juqueri hospital complex.

Understand

Get in

Get around

See

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Connect

Stay safe

Franco da Rocha is an impoverished city, where a foreigner tourist will be viewed as an alien. Wandering the city is not advised unless you have proper guidance.

Go next

gollark: According to supreme overlord jeff bezos, my phone is arriving in 5 to 185 minutes.
gollark: ... you TOTAL LYRICLY.
gollark: Probably a pun on strinŋs.
gollark: Apparently some text editors use "ropes" as a data structure for text.
gollark: I mean, Gates is okay.
This article is issued from Wikivoyage. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.