The bridge, which is pretty cool all lit up, connects the northern part of Natal to the southern part.Ponte Newton Navarro is actually right at the mouth of the Potenji River as it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Just east of the bridge stands the Fort of the Magi Kings. I was standing near its entrance when I took this photo. This is an area where the Dutch attacked and invaded Brazil around the beginning of the 1600s (they stayed for about 40 years). The Dutch incursion in northern Brazil is the reason why some Brazilians have reddish hair. It's also interesting to note that a lot of the Dutch invaders were descendants of Portuguese Sephardi Jews who had been kicked out of Portugal a hundred years earlier (1497 edict). It's fascinating how things cycle, no? I believe this is also part of the reason why there are Church members from the tribe of Judah in northern Brazil.
