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Rio de Janeiro holidays

February 2021

  • The Vila Isabel samba school at the 2020 Rio carnival.

    Virtual travel guides
    Samba and caipirinhas: how to celebrate Rio’s cancelled carnival online

    The world’s biggest party should have started today. Enjoy the virtual version through livestream shows, music and online tours of Rio’s spectacular sights

February 2020

  • MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. 1996. Architect: Oscar Niemeyer<br>C2PPR9 MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. 1996. Architect: Oscar Niemeyer

    A vision in concrete: Oscar Niemeyer’s Brazil

    As Brasília turns 60, it’s time to reassess the legendary modernist architect on a visit to the Brazilian capital and Rio de Janeiro

April 2019

  • Cyclists in the bike lane next to the Ipanema Beach, Rio

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Rio de Janeiro: 10 top tips

    As a direct budget flight from London launches this week, our Brazil correspondent picks out favela feasts, samba sessions and seaside cycle rides to savour

April 2017

  • Families relax by Rio de Janeiro’s Lagoa Rodrigo Freitas.

    From our correspondent
    10 top tips from our Rio de Janeiro correspondent

    From the birthplace of samba to sundowners by the sea, our man in Rio knows where to go for a good night out, as well as the best spots for taking in the breathtaking tropical beauty of the ‘Marvellous City’

December 2016

  • Faithful push a boat filled with flowers into the waters of Copacabana beach as an offering for Yemanja, goddess of the sea, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

    World view
    New Year’s Eve on Copacabana beach: flowers before Rio's fireworks

    Worshippers of Yemanjá ask for blessings from their deity at Copacabana – before the world’s largest New Year’s Eve beach party kicks off

October 2016

  • Mama told me to come … a double room at the new Mama Shelter hotel, Rio de Janeiro

    Brazilian Mama: boutique hotel chain Mama Shelter opens in Rio

    Mama Shelter, a budget boutique hotel brand setup by the co-founder of Club Med, has plumped the cushions at a chic, stylish new property in Rio

August 2016

  • outdoor restaurant tables in Araras, Brazil.

    The foodie traveller
    Araras, Brazil’s new ‘Gourmet Valley’

    The cool lush hillside in the imperial city of Petrópolis, north of Rio de Janeiro, has become a culinary destination, with a growing number of exceptional restaurants serving refined European cuisine

July 2016

  • Young Brazilian men play keepy uppy on the beach

    Holiday guides
    Fun and Games – the inside track on Rio de Janeiro

  • Gilles Peterson at Lucky 7 Record Shop, Stoke Newington, London, Britain - 01 Nov 2012<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Laura Lewis/REX/Shutterstock (2623535d) Gilles Peterson Gilles Peterson at Lucky 7 Record Shop, Stoke Newington, London, Britain - 01 Nov 2012

    Gilles Peterson’s Rio de Janeiro playlist

  • The Arcos da Lapa makes for a good meeting place, where impromptu parties often break out.

    Readers' travel tips
    Samba, history, food and drink in Rio de Janeiro: readers’ travel tips

  • Carnival dancers at this year’s Rio Maracatu ‘bloco’, or street parade.

    Experts' and readers' tips
    Send us a tip on Rio de Janeiro and you could win a £200 hotel voucher

June 2016

  • Panoramic shot of the St John the Baptist cemetery, in the Rio neighbourhood of Botafogo. Brazil

    A great little place I know
    Finding peace with the ‘little angels’ of Rio's São João Batista cemetery

    One of the most mysterious and moving places in the city is in the tranquil seclusion found at a Botafogo burial site

April 2016

  • The original favela: Morro da Providência in Rio de Janeiro, photographed in 1926.

    The story of cities
    The story of cities #15: the rise and ruin of Rio de Janeiro's first favela

    Since it was first built by war veterans in 1897, Morro da Providência has become a complex symbol of poverty, violence and sentimentality, fetishised in popular culture. But where do the favelas fit into Brazil’s vision for the Olympic Games?

March 2016

  • A tram drives over the distinctive white structure of the landmark Lapa Arches (Carioca Aqueduct) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    World view
    World view: Rio de Janeiro's historic tram is back on track

    A section of the Santa Teresa tramline is up and running once more in Rio – in time for this summer’s Olympics

August 2015

  • Fans watch a friendly soccer game between Brazil and England,

    Rio Olympics: public scepticism persists as preparations approach final lap

    Progress on venues and infrastructure is evident but the city faces its biggest test of public opinion this week, one year before the Games open

July 2015

  • tom gilbert and david cook having lunch in manchester

    Summer food & drink special 2015: let's do lunch
    Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?

    In Rome, a lunch break is enshrined in law. In Rio, food vouchers come with the job. So what can we learn from the way the rest of the world lunches? Writers from Nairobi to New York find out what’s on the menu

May 2015

  • Marc Ferrez / Robert Polidori: Rio. Sugarloaf Mountain, ca. 1875

    One city, two centuries: Rio then and now – in pictures

    A new book brings Marc Ferrez’s vivid 19th-century photographs of Rio together with Robert Polidori’s modern shots to show the Marvellous City in all its chaos and beauty

April 2015

  • Sao Conrado beach in Rio de Janeiro

    Polluted Rio de Janeiro beach ruled out for pro surfing competition

  • olympics rio

    Top Olympics caterer threatens to withdraw from Rio de Janeiro games

March 2015

  • Botafogo beach in Guanabara Bay and Sugar Loaf Mountain beyond.

    On the radar
    Botafogo, the in-betweener neighbourhood, making its mark on Rio

    Thanks to new bars, restaurants and a creative spirit, this old Rio district between the city centre and the beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana is becoming a destination in its own right
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