Nothing
can really prepare the foreigner in Rio de Janeiro, this town
of 10 million inhabitants extended between high peaks of granite
and the Atlantic Ocean has many treasures to discover
The district of Santa Teresa to the paved and tortuous lanes,
with its spectacular sights on bay, is certainly one of most
picturesque of Rio. The most attractive manner to reach it
is to take celebrates it plug electrico (trams) built in 1896.
Santa Teresa offers many points of view of any beauty. With
the second stopping of the tram, for example, one will discover
a splendid panorama on bay of Guanabara.
The bay of Guanabara remains a true pleasure for the eye with
its two forts of 17 & 19 3rd centuries which keep the
entry of it. It is easy to cross bay of Guanabara to go in
Niterói or in the islands, from where one discovers
a splendid sight of the town of Rio and luxuriant mountains
which crimp it. The favorite stage of the visitors is Ilha
de Paquetá, largest of the 84 islands of bay.
The
Sugar loaf This rock peak of 395m, with the so singular
form is since always the symbol of Rio. The Indians called
formerly it Pau-Nd-Acuqua, Which means "high pointed
and insulated headland". For the Portuguese that sounded
like Pão of açúcar, and the peak itself
pointed out to them the shape of these clay moulds used
to make sugar loafs. The Portuguese name remained. In the
west you will discover panoramas of any beauty, where extend
the beaches from Leme, Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon, bordered
by the mountains. With your feet, you will see the districts
of Botafogo and Flamengo with surmounted Corcovado of Christ
Redeemer. Whatever the hour, the sight since the Sugar loaf
is splendid.
Copacabana With its 4,5 km length which follow a perfect
curve remains certainly the preferred beach from abroad.
It is in the Twenties that it acquired its notoriety, with
construction, in 1923 of Copacabana Palace Hotel, the only
hotel of luxury of all the Latin America at the time. In
summer its population amounts per hundred thousands. The
salesmen of drinks, solar lotions, hats, sandals and kites
survey the beach with length of day.
The
famous statue of Christ, arm believe about it, draws up
itself on the peak of high Corcovado of 710m.On can see
of all the districts of Rio work is due to the French sculptor
Paul Landowsky. You will discover all the districts at a
single glance there bordering the bay, the beaches of Ipanema
and Copacabana, and especially the superb lagoon Rodrigo
C Freitas.Tout around Corcovado extends the splendid drill
from Tijuca which almost advances to the heart even city.
Ipanema
is the residential district more sélect of the city.
Today Ipanema is the center of the mode and the sophistication.
What is not "in" in Ipanema is not "in"
whole. The most luxurious shops of Rio border the streets
of Ipanema and Leblon. The beach of Ipanema, less wide than
that of Copacabana, is the place of appointment of the young
jet set of Rio It is practically it only beach of Brazil
on which the women carry the topless swimsuit. Less animated
and less noisy than Copacabana, Ipanema is undoubtedly most
romantic of the 23 beaches which Rio account.
Jardim
Botânico is a park of more than 140 ha containing
nearly 235.000 plants and more than 5.000 species of trees.
To the south of Ipanema extend from more isolated beaches
and thus better preserved than the others. São Conrado
is located at it in a encircled handle de.toutes.parts by
mountains covered with a dense vegetation. It is there that
rises Morro da Gávea, an enormous block of granite
much more impressive by its form and its size that celebrates
it Sugar loaf. The beach enjoys a certain popularity among
the youth of Rio - the young people of the favelas and the
intellectuals find themselves at the end of the beach on
a territory where the police force never comes.
With its 18 km length, the beach of Barred at the same time
longest, but also is attended of Rio during the week.
At the end of Barred, the small beach of Recreio back Bandeirantes
stretches itself safe from a natural pier which forms a
genuine miniature bay. De Recreio, a road climbs in the
mountain before going down again towards the beach of Prainha,
attended by the surfers, then that of Grumari, marvelously
insulated.
