Rio Restaurant Week: the best way to eat great food (begins today!)

The 8th edition of the Rio Restaurant Week takes place from TODAY until June 2nd with over 60 registered restaurants!!! The purpose of the event is to provide a unique opportunity for everyone to appreciate delicious creations of some of the best restaurants in town, at discounted prices. For this, the dishes offered at lunch

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Rio is beautiful even on cloudy days…

Don’t you think?!!! The picture was taken in Urca.

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Quitandinha Palace (Palácio Quitandinha): a landmark of Petrópolis

Rio de Janeiro is very known due to its beautiful beaches, but there are many nice places in the mountain area, such as Petrópolis, which is only about 68 km or 1:30 hour from Rio de Janeiro city. When it was opened, Palácio Quitandinha was the “Cassino Hotel Quitandinha”, the largest hotel casino in Latin America

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Botanical Garden is a green treasure of Rio (better, of Brazil!)

The Garden is located in Jardim Botânico district, nearby Gávea and Lagoa. Is a serene and quiet place where you will see many families walking by with their children, people doing exercises, nannies taking care of babies, and brides, young couple and models taking pictures to make a photo catalogue with a beautiful scenario. Botanic

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Next post: the Botanical Garden

On my next post I will talk about the lungs of Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful Botanical Garden, our green area inside de city, more especifically at the Jardim Botânico neighborhood.

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Latin American contemporary art well represented at Casa Daros Rio

Casa Daros Rio, an institution of Daros Latinamerica, is a new venue located in Botafogo for contemporary art exhibition and education.  After six years of great work of remodeling and restoration, the building was reopened to the public with rooms for exhibitions, art and education, library, auditorium, restaurant/café and shop. I visited the 19th century building

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Rio 360 Panoramic View

The incredible view of this 360 photo was made from the top of Corcovado Mountain, where is the Christ the Redeemer Statue. This amazing job (click on the picture below to see*) was done by Ayrton in order to be part of the Olympic Games bid material and here is his website where you can check other 360 photos:

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I love the Autumn days in Rio!

Nice walking at Praia de Botafogo this morning…

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