by Acusticoz

Beaches, Music And Culture – Rio De Janeiro A City Truly Wonderful

With 5.8 million inhabitants, the state capital is the main tourist hub of the country and for decades one of the first destinations reminded by foreigners planning to visit America. Collaborate to fame Samba and Carnival, which in 2006 won the complex City of Samba, in the harbor.

In the golden years, Rio was presented as a state of mind. “What’s cry, to suffer? If the sun will dawn, the day will dawn…” The Carioca author of the song sees the landscape miraculous powers, able to relieve pain, especially pain elbow. Vinicius de Moraes, diplomat and singer, composed of hundreds of artists and writers a sentimental collection that makes Brazilians believe they know the river without having gone there.

There are beaches and monuments sung in verse than Ipanema, Copacabana and Christ the Redeemer, also appear to exhaustion in novels, movies and news. But any screen is small for the Guanabara Bay and the outlines of monumental importance that links the forest and the ocean. And the breeze of the tropics can only be felt in the face live. Even pilots who see all the top yet again surprised: there will always be foam in separate waves, one corner where a recent rain makes green or striking a bold climber trying to climb the Sugar Loaf.

La Ville Merveilleuse

It was in French that the expression “Wonderful Town” was heard for the first time, so named Jeanne Catulle Mendes in 1912. He turned the informal anthem of marching André Filho, the Carnival of 1935, that of the “charms thousand” and “heart of my Brazil.” Between one and another poor rhyme, sprung on the Avenida Atlantica Copacabana Palace hotel opened in 1923 that set new standards of luxury and glamor to the city.

Rio took the post of the federal capital of Salvador in 1763 and lost the trophy to Brasilia in 1960. It hosted the Portuguese empire from 1808, Brazil’s independent (still monarchist) and then republican capital. The more than 230 years of political supremacy in the city filled of historic buildings and valuable collections as the National Library, National Museum of Fine Arts and the Municipal Theater.

A rainy day in a small resort can be desperate. Not on the River are dozens of cultural centers and museums to visit, some with landscaping by Burle Marx, the more the rich interiors of churches of colonial Brazil and a formidable list of temples of gastronomy, Confectionery Colombo Times Olavo Bilac to bars frequented celebrities and contemporary poets.

The soundtracks

It is the saddest paradoxes for the tourist, this need to hide the machinery of film or photograph for fear of assault, one of the most photogenic places on earth. Daily News of urban violence can intimidate the trip, as if the problems caused by social inequality were not alarming in all major Brazilian cities.

The use of public transport requires care. When in doubt, it is better to choose the taxi or by walking into vans and jeeps of local tourism agencies. Prefer to travel around the area of Cinelândia on weekdays, during business hours. It is seen as an alien wealthy. Avoid parks and fair vendors at night, obviously, and the safe use of the hotel room, if offered.

Funk dances can be traumatic, and see the slums as a balance of exotic submoradias too. As the late economist Carlos Lessa in “The River of All Brazils”, “the Rio is not afraid of the crowd, afraid, yes, the empty square.”

For crackers in general, the best part of planning a trip to Rio is not trying to be swimwear to parade on the boardwalk. Not believe that, so they are used, the locals do not fall over in laughter before the awkward dancers. Even before through the bohemian Lapa Madame Sata, good to know that the soundtrack is already ready in the head.

Noel Rosa, Cartola, Tom Jobim, Vinicius, Joao Gilberto, Miúcha, Nara Leão, Chico Buarque, Elza Soares, Cazuza, Marina Lima e Paulinho da Viola, among others, have designed the physical and emotional geography of the city. The second best part is divining stay on the beach where the sand grains or kiosks that team been treading the last time he was seen on the waves

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