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RIO DE JANEIRO
The state of Rio has one of the most beautiful coasts of the country, with a great number of beaches, coves and bays. Its economy is based basically on the tourism and the industrial activity and is the main producer of oil of the country, besides being the headquarters of almost all Brazilian naval industry. |
The Redeemer, Jesus Christ - RJ
Beach of Ipanema - RJ
Stadium of Maracanã -RJ
Municipal Theater - RJ
Beach of Arpoador - RJ
Christ - RJ
View from the Christ - RJ
Yoga - Arpoador - RJ
Pão de Açúcar - RJ
Sunset on Christ - RJ
Copacabana - RJ
Sambódromo - Carnaval - RJ
Arches of Lapa - RJ
Beach of Pepino - RJ
Copacabana - RJ
Landfill of Flamengo - RJ
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RIO DE JANEIRO |
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It is the capital of the state homonym, and probably the most known of Brazil in the World. The city is in a privileged site, with a rich environment between the mountain and the sea. Its coast includes pretty beaches and bays, with some islands. The inhabitants of the city are known as "Cariocas". Since 1716 until 1960, was capital of Brazil, visible considered in its architecture, and the city conserves a great number of constructions that had been dependences of the government and form one of the biggest cultural quantities of Brazil. |
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It is also a great center of art and fashion. The local galleries and the museums possess permanent samples of Brazilian artists and of the whole world. The elegant Ipanema offer stores of the most modern and fashion styles, and there are the main jewelers of the world together. The Rio conserves an image of great cultural and tourist center, and is the main door of entrance of tourists who come to Brazil. He is one of the biggest spreading points of the national culture, cradle of 3 great Brazilian musical sorts: chorinho, the samba, and bossa nova. |
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The Rio, capital, possess more than 150 quarters. Santa Tereza is the most traditional, that reaches through the old aqueduct, known as "Arcs of the Lapa". On the other side, the quarters are more modern, as the Barra of the Tijuca, to the edges of the sea. In Rio there are some of the universities of bigger prestige in Brazil, and possess more than 60 centers of research, and courses of posterior graduation in diverse areas of the knowledge. Moreover it counts on diverse types of church, constructed in different styles architectural. In counterpoint to the great city, the slum quarters and the poverty meet. |
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Museum Mansion of the Sky - This center, located in Saint Tereza, form with the Museum of the Dam, the known Complex as Museum Castro Maia. This place possess perfect harmony between art, history and nature. It was residence of the collector of art Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maia, founder of the museum, and opened to the public since 1972. It presents workmanships of Picasso, Dalí, Matisse, Modigliani and Monet, Chinese ceramics parts, furniture and a Brazilian collection with maps, watercolors and oils of artists of centuries XVI to the XIX. |
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New Cathedral - It is a construction of great dimensions, of vanguardist architecture, in form of cut pyramid. Its interior is immense and it does not possess no type of support column, has a height of 83 meters, a diameter of 104 meters, and a capacity of 25.000 people. In the decoration of the building, enormous 20 stained glass windows of 60 meters, that follow the symbolic colors of the church: ecclesiastical green, red saint, blue catholic and apostolic yellow. |
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National Library - One of the most beautiful examples of the neoclassic architecture of the Rio initially was created by Dom Jose, then King of Portugal, to substitute the Real Library, destroyed in a fire that devastated Lisbon in 1755. In 1808 the resources of this Library had been carried Brazil in the equipment from the imperial court that followed the King João VI, when he ran away from Portugal in the French invasion. In 1990, the library arrived at the mark of 8 million volumes, becoming itself into the biggest institution of this type in Latin America. |
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Imperial Palace - Square 15 of November, called thus to commemorate the announcement of the Republic of Brazil in 1899, constitutes the heart of the Rio, and here they meet the Imperial Palace and of Tiradentes. This is one of biggest architectural jewels of the Cariocas, is the place where the Declaration of Independence of Brazil was written. It is distinguished for its great dimension, already it was used as Palace of the Governor, and later it was headquarters of the Portuguese Administration up to 1791, and finally Post offices and Telegraphs. The museo can be visited and the place be contemplated. |
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Palace of Tiradentes - It is an important reference of the Brazilian parlamentarist tradition. It was constructed in 1922, and in 1926 it was the place where Joaquin Jose da Silva Xavier, the Tiradentes (the leader of one of most important of the independist movement of the colonial time) was imprisoned. In front to the palace a statue in bronze of Tiradentes meets, of 4,5 meters of height, on a granite pedestal. |
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Palace of the Itamaraty - it was constructed in century XIX for the son of the first Baron of the Itamaraty, in neoclassic style. Since 1889 to 1898 it was a republican seat of government, and 1899 headquarters of the Ministry of Relações Exteriores (MRE). Currently it shelters the representative office of the MRE in the Rio. The palace counts on a great historical inheritance: the Historical Museum and Diplomatist, the Historical Archive, and the Mapoteca. |
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Municipal Theater - French architecture of the beginning of century XX, it calls attention for the imponent façade, beyond a showy interior. It was constructed in Carrara marble, bronze and onix, and counts on mirrors and furniture of time, painting and sculptures, and has capacity for 2.500 people. |
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Monastery of São Bento - Finished in 1669 and extended a century later, the Monastery was considered Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO. The drawing of the chapels, the pictures, works of art, and the spectacular ceiling of the central ship, converts the church into an obligator visit. |
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Museum of the Republic - One meets in the Palace of the Catete, seat of government of the Republic since 1897 up to 1960. 18 presidents had passed for these doors, and some of the most important decisions of the history of the country, as the decision to fight in the two world-wide wars and the suicide of Getúlio Vargas. The Palace was transformed when the seat of government moved to Brasilia. |
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Museum of Arte Moderna (MAM) - Located in the privileged park of the Flamengo, together to the Bay of Guanabara. Currently it counts on 1.700 workmanships, including paintings, sculptures and writings of Brazilian and foreign artists. It shows Picasso, Matisse and Braque. In addition it possess a library specialized in art and one very known film library. |
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Lagoon Rodrigo de Freitas - One meets in the center of the city, encircled for three quarters, in the south of the park of the Corcovado, next to Ipanema and to the sea for the canal to the Garden of Alá. The Lagoon is surrounded of houses, offices, gardens, parks, clubs, and a heliport. |
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Other Places of Interest - Botanical Garden, that presents more than 230,000 plants of 5.000 different species of the whole world, also some in extinguishing, is considered an Historic and Cultural site; the Carioca Aqueduct, the most monumental workmanship of the colonial time, the aqueduct was constructed to provide water for all city in Santa Tereza, currently known as "Arcs of the Lapa" in century XIX as center of the nocturnal life; and the Brazilian Jockey Club, one of the historical places of the city, drawn for Luis XV, conceived for the architect Francisco Couchet, where races of the most important horses of Brazil are celebrated, and also is an important center of sports, entertainment, fashion, receptions, spectacles, and other events. |
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SUN COAST |
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To the north of the city of the Rio, there are the beaches known as Coast of the Sun, an interesting contrast between luxury and simplicity, the inheritance of the colonial and the modern. Also it is known as the "Region of the Lakes", and counts on more than 100 km beach and salty water lagoons. The region is filled with small beach towns as Búzios, considered one of the main places of the country for practical of diving and the nautical sports. In the cultural aspect, Cabo Frio is distinguished, known for its historic past that reflects in its colonial architecture, as the Fort of São Mateus, constructed in 1650. It possess immenses white and fine sand dunes. |
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GREEN COAST |
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To the south of the River, more beyond the beach of the Barra, they meet a practically desert beach series, that forms the call green coast one of the places most beautiful of the Brazilian coast. These beaches are protected by arrecife of Marambaia. Some of them only can be reached by the sea. |
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Angra dos Reis - It is one of the main places of interest of the Green Coast, presenting colonial constructions and charming beaches. Its bay is ideal for boat strolls, and presents great space for fishing and diving. The main attractive one of cove is the Ilha Grande, of mountainous relief and rich in vegetation, counts on beaches half-savages, waterfalls and lagoons of rivers that go down the mountain. |
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Paraty - Established in 1630, it is a colonial city, considered the greater and more complete set of the colonial time in the state of the Rio presents a pretty, composed historical set for very old houses and streets of rocks. In the architecture, it is distinguished Church of Rita Saint. On the other hand the city very counts on beautiful beaches e its port had great importance in the gold embarkment and precious rocks. |
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MOUNTAIN REGION |
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In the interior of the State of the Rio, in way to the one exuberant vegetation, the cities of Teresópolis, Nova Friburgo are distinguished, and one of most important, Petrópolis. The two last ones had been colonized by Swiss immigrants and Germans, who had left traces in its customs and the architecture. |
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Petrópolis - It was shelter of rest and leisure of the Brazilian imperial family during century XIX. For this reason the city received the name from as the Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II, and was developed as imperial city. It appeared of a farm bought for Peter II, its preferring, and passed its seasons of summer there, running away from the heat of the Rio, currently transformed into Imperial Museum, presents an important collection of pertaining objects to the royalty: old furniture, works of art, and the jewels of the crown. |
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Teresópolis - Iits name was given because of Empress Tereza Cristina, and meets in the National Park Mountain range, where the "Finger of God" is distinguished, a peak in form of closed fist, with the pointer pointing to the sky. |
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