Paraty is a colonial town of whitewashed houses and cobbled streets that flood at high tide, a UNESCO site with the surrounding Atlantic Forest. Take a boat to the beaches and islands.
Ilha Grande, nearby, has no cars, and beaches such as Lopes Mendes.
Rio's famous beaches: Copacabana with its wave-patterned promenade, and Ipanema, with views of the Dois Irmãos peaks, where locals applaud the sunset…
The 30 m Art Deco statue of Christ with open arms on top of Corcovado mountain, completed in 1931, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, with sw…
CabanaCopa is a hostel in a big renovated colonial house on a quiet lane in Copacabana, three blocks from the beach and next to the green slopes of t…
A granite peak rising 396 m at the mouth of Guanabara Bay, reached by two cable cars via Morro da Urca, with views of Copacabana and Christ the Redee…
A gold-rush colonial town in the hills of Minas Gerais, a UNESCO site, with steep cobbled streets and baroque churches decorated by the sculptor Alei…
Brazil's planned capital, built in the late 1950s, with buildings by Oscar Niemeyer: the crown-shaped Cathedral, the National Congress and the Paláci…
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