COLONIAL, ART DECO’, BELLE EPOQUE, BAROQUE buildings and churches. Most visitors to Rio stay and remain where the beaches or the most important monuments/restaurants/clubs are located and rarely venture to other areas
Not only LAPA (well known for nightclubs as the amazing Rio Scenarium http://www.rioscenarium.com.br/)
but also CENTRO (modern skyscrapers mix with colonial and imperial architecture in the business district of Rio). Get lost walking from Mosteiro de Sao Bento, the golden monastery on the hill, to the narrow cobblestone street Travessa do comercio with bars, restaurants, art galleries and a Cultural Center.
CHAMELEON in RUA DA CARIOCA
Leaving the elegant Bar Luiz (one of the oldest bars operating for over 120 years
http://www.barluiz.com.br/) you’ll hit on an extraordinary Art-Nouveau theatre - that has been turned into cinema for an audience with particularly “taste” even if every weekend night it turns again into a party place devoted to rock, alternative, electronic, and indie music.
Walk through the SAARA shopping district with the nose in the air, looking at the colonial buildings above the amusing confusion and take a pause at CHARUTARIA (tobacco shop) SYRIA where you can taste a very special walnut cake.
Rua Sr dos Passos, 180
Last but not least: SAUDE neighborhood that preserves its original architecture, albeit left to decay but allows the visitor to imagine what Rio must have been like before modernity took over
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