Location: Rio de Janeiro
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With its plentiful beaches, dramatic mountains, and backdrop of samba and bossa nova rhythms, it's easy to fall in love with Rio de Janeiro. Made famous in song, Ipanema Beach is still the place to stroll, sunbathe, and be seen. The largest Art Deco statue in the world, Christ the Redeemer, beckons visitors to Corcovado Mountain. Rio’s annual Carnaval celebrations are bacchanalian extravaganzas of feasting, music, dance, and costumed revelry.
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1. Suzana Perl Tour Guide
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Welcome to Brazil, welcome Rio! I'm Susan! If you want a personalized tour, we can make it happen, not only in Rio, but anywhere in Brazil. Contact let me be your guide! Great experience guiding groups to Sao Paulo, Foz do Iguacu, Paraty, Buzios and other cities of Brazil.
2. Centro Cultural Municipal Parque das Ruinas
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4.5 based on 1,260 reviews
Reviewed By FoodiEbeLovesTravel - London, United Kingdom
The old house felt like a living storybook, the interior designs are a great mix of old tasteful bricks & glasshouse & greens, love it! You cant miss it if you are at Santa Teresa!
3. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - CCBB Rio de Janeiro
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4.5 based on 8,635 reviews
The CCBB is a cultural center that consists of exhibition rooms, three theaters, a library, cinema, and a video room. It is housed in an art deco style building located in what used to be the financial district of Rio de Janeiro.
Reviewed By JodoRio
Amazing neoclassic building, great exhibitions, theater, cinema, nice facilities and a wonderful library on the fifth floor.This is a very important and complete cultural center.There is a small café and a book store.
4. Ilha Fiscal
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4.5 based on 710 reviews
Reviewed By AnaKrueger - Houston, United States
One of the most beautiful locations in Rio. Access to the island is via a short bus trip from the visitor center. The old customs island is in a strategic position where you can see the connection of the Guanabara bay to the Atlantic Ocean, also you can see many of the old Portuguese forts, the City of Rio de Janeiro and the city of Niterói. The view is incredible. The building is very nice carved in Gneiss with beautiful glass murals. It is also a nice history lesson about the last days of the Brazilian monarchy.
5. Sao Francisco de Paula Church
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4.5 based on 136 reviews
This church in the Largo de São Francisco was the site of many imperial events, including the 1822 mass dedicated to the country's conversion from colony to kingdom and the mass celebrating Brazil's adoption of its first constitution in 1831. Pope Pius X dedicated one of its chapels to the defeat of the Turks by Christian forces in the 16th century. Along with its colonial exterior and ornate interior, visitors should note sculptures done by Mestre Valentim and paintings by the slave Manoel da Cunha.
6. Basilica Imaculada Conceicao
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4.5 based on 45 reviews
Reviewed By PombaFeliz10 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Live in Botafogo and Love my Neighborhood but had never entered Basilica Imaculada Conceicao!! Usually went to Masses at Copacabana but decided to go to this Gothic Church, that had No idea it was such a different Gothic style one, bright and colourfull inside. Thanks God arrived there earlier and could appreciate that Wonderfull piece of Religious Art ! & The Masses are also very Good and Inspiring!
7. Academia Brasileira De Letras
8. Casa das Canoas
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4.5 based on 33 reviews
Projetada por Niemeyer em 1951 para sua moradia, é considerada um dos mais significativos exemplares da arquitetura moderna brasileira, sendo notoriamente reconhecida, por especialistas de história e crítica da arte, como síntese apurada e premonitória da arquitetura moderna, de livre criação autoral que floresceu na Europa e nas Américas. Residence designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1952 for his dwelling. The house, owned by the family of the architect, is gently released for public viewing by its historical and achitectural interest.
9. Cais do Valongo
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4.5 based on 69 reviews
Reviewed By LuizDutraNeto - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 1811 a new pier, named "Cais do Valongo", was built for the landing and trading of enslaved Africans (mainly from Congo and Angola). Through this quay, more than 500.000 Africans arrived in Brazil. Sad memories of slavery ... Over the years, the quay undergone some transformations, one of them, in 1843, to welcome the Italian Princess Thereza Christina de Bourbon e Duas Sicílias, the last Brazilian Empress. Thereafter the pier was renamed on her honor as "Cais da Imperatriz". In 2017, it was appointed as a world heritage site by Unesco - a very good reason to visit it! While strolling along beautiful "Boulevard Olímpico", "Cais do Valongo" is just two blocks away. Enjoy!
10. Arquivo Nacional
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4.5 based on 24 reviews
