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Information on Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
The first Portuguese explorers that arrived at Guabanara bay were amazed because of its extraordinary beauty. Rio de Janeiro grew up to the sides of the bay, the Marvelous City. Fantasy name to a perfect combination of sea, earth, climate and people. A nice mixture of the Indian, White and Black cultures, fermented in a magnificent natural scenery.
Cosmopolitan
city, Brazil’s capital for almost 200 years, Rio de Janeiro is one
of the most main culture centers on the country, with a lot of cinemas,
theaters, museums, rooms of concert, show houses, art galleries and libraries.
Big gastronomical zone, the restaurants on the city offer a lot of options,
from international cookery to typical dishes from all Brazilian regions.
Very few cities in the world are able to concentrate, in a very cool way,
all the little icons that makes life a party: beach, sun, samba, frozen
beer, tasteful food, football, beautiful people, streets with light curves
that lead to little tropical forests.
Rio de Janeiro is an intense modernity, and it’s also a quotidian meeting with the past. The baroque art found in churches and monasteries, the deco art found in very preserved residential facades, the modernist architecture from 1950’s: all of these elements make Rio a witness of its own history.
Rio is a city that echoes, vibrates. With the sound of surdos, tabors, tambourines and cuicas, that mark the compass of Carnival. With the explosion of a goal in Maracanã stadium, where 170 thousand people support their football teams. With the roaring of the waves in the rocks and with the colorful crack of fireworks in the Réveillon. Rio pulsates in a permanent celebration to life.
DON’T MISS OUT
Beaches
Going to a beach in Rio is more than abandoning yourself in the sand and
enjoying the sea. It’s walking, bicycling, meeting friends, watching
the sunset, appreciating the walk around in the walkway, drinking coconut
water or a very frozen beer and waiting for the evening.
Corcovado
Watching the city from high up Corcovado, where Christ is, with open arms
above Guanabara bay. You can get to the lookout by car or by a tourist
little train that climbs up the hill crossing the forest.
Pão de Açúcar
Another postal card on Rio de Janeiro is a hill in the entrance of Guanabara
bay. You can get there by a panoramic cable car that offers one of the
most beautiful views on the city. Floresta da Tijuca (Tijuca's Forest)
Very near to South Zone, it’s a very exuberant tropical forest,
with waterfalls and cascades, within urban area.
Jardim Botânico and Lagoa
Walking around Jardim Botânico (Botanical Garden), walking under
the shadows of alleys of palms, breathing the clean air and the peace
of tree-lined streets is one of the most indicated programmes to scape
from the heat. Walking or bicycling, around the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas’
(Rodrigo de Freitas' lake) border, magnificent water mirror enclosed by
mountains, that offers an equipped leisure space and kiosks where you
can eat and drink very well.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Contemporary
Art Museum)
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, in Niterói city, in the opposite side
of Guanabara bay. You can get to Niterói with ferries departing
all time from the Rio city center.
Carnival
To visit the city in the Carnival period and to watch to so called “the
biggest show in the planet”, the parade of the samba schools in
the “Sambódromo”. It’s a spectacle with colors,
music and unforgettable and involving rhythm.
Réveillon
Staying in Copacabana during the réveillon and participating in
one of the most beautiful collective parties in Rio. At midnight, the
spectacle of fireworks begins, with white dressed people occupying the
entire border getting people crazy.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The city also offers excellent hotels and tourism agencies. There is a
good communication and installation system appropriate for every nature
events, like the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in
1992, concentrating almost one hundred chiefs of state in the biggest
conventions center in the city.
HOW TO GET THERE
Rio de Janeiro is 1150 km far from Brasilia and 420 km far from São
Paulo. It’s has an enormous and modern International Airport, that
receives flights from all over Brazil and the world. Galeão airport,
next to the city center, operates with domestic flights. It has road terminals
with bus departing to cities all over Brazil.
source:http://www.embratur.gov.br