Little Africa And The City Of Samba: Where Dreams Come True
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Little Africa And The City Of Samba: Where Dreams Come True

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Discover the best of Rio de Janeiro with a local experience.

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Visit the most typical places of the first African cultural manifestations in the Americas. Take a new look at the two cultures, African and European, and its legacy in the arts, cuisine, dance and music, highlighting the Carnival.

  • Visit the City of Samba, or City of Dreams, an area where the Samba Schools develop the floats that will parade in the Sambodrome
  • Understand how celebrations of Catholic and African merged its cultural manifestations and producing the most famous Carnival in the world.
  • Visit the current region of the Port, which for decades received thousands of Africans from different ethnic groups, nations, and cultures.
  • Visit Pedra do Sal (Salt Stone), where the Community of Remnants of Quilombos is located and considered as Cultural Heritage.
  • Get to know Valongo Wharf, the largest African point of entry in the Americas. It has been submitted to UNESCO to become World Heritage.
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