The renovations made in the area uncovered many historic sites of interest that help to understand the commerce and trafficking of black people into Rio.

There are restaurants, bars, patisseries, dance and music houses on the list as well as traditional garment and cigar stores. We highlight some for you.

MAR and Museu do Amanhã are great options to know more about Brazilian culture, the history of the city and experience how it will be 50 years from now.

Check our list of cafés where you can have breakfast, brunch, or lunch and a good cup of one of Brazil's favorite beverages.

Project created as an incentive to the local artistic community gave space to more than one hundred creatives artists from all over showcase their work

Created from the American hip-hop, this very carioca rhythm spread throughout the city from its favelas; more melodic and less erotic version became a hit

Ilha da Gigoia is not much visited even by the locals but the place mixes the facilities of the great city with the visual of a small village by the sea

In its 19th edition, FestRio has more than 250 productions from 60 countries among which 78 Brazilian films and "Fevereiros" about the champion parade of Carnival 2016.

The city gastronomic scene is not totally dominated by dishes like feijoada; here's a list where to go to avoid meat or greasy foods.

This public library has one of the World's most important collections of literature in Portuguese and is located since 1887 in an architechtual jewel