Rio de Janeiro really, really surprised me. I knew the city would be interesting, but I wasn’t expecting to be this blown ...

Home; Culture & Life; Travel; the week recommends Rio de Janeiro: a guide to Brazil's iconic city. There's far more to Rio than just mountains, beaches, music and dance ...

Rio de Janeiro city guide Show all 9. Get the lay of the land by taking the cable car up Sugarloaf Mountain. The view from up here takes in Copacabana, Centro and Botafogo’s yacht-filled bay, ...

Jack Nicas, The New York Times’s Brazil bureau chief, has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 2021. ... Casa Porto serves hearty Brazilian dishes with a view over one of the city’s most popular plazas.

Today’s page looks at the city famous for beautiful beaches, beautiful people and Carnival. The first Europeans to discover the site that would become Rio de Janeiro were the Portuguese, on Jan ...

Rio de Janeiro: the wonderful city with a thousand colours. On the Atlantic coast, Rio de Janeiro is a sunny city, where life ...

After Brasília, says João Masao Kamita, a 59-year-old architect and historian at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, “architects didn’t understand their own city anymore.” ...