Municipal Theater

09 - Guided Walk Through the Historic Center of Rio de Janeiro

City Tours
Digital
180 minutes
English

The historic center of Rio de Janeiro is surrounded by centuries-old roads and buildings that illustrate important passages in the history of Brazil from the imperial period to the republic.

Visitors who walk along Avenida Rio Branco, pass through Largo da Carioca, Cinelândia, return and take the Ombudsman to Rua Primeiro de Março and explore many other paths, will find museums, cultural centers and public places where characters from Machado de Assis and they represented the meeting point of intellectuals until the middle of the 20th century.

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09 - Guided Walk Through the Historic Center of Rio de Janeiro

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What's included in 09 - Guided Walk Through the Historic Center of Rio de Janeiro

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Itinerary

Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro

The Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro is one of the most important Brazilian theaters. It is located in Cinelândia, in the city center of Rio de Janeiro. Opened in 1909, the Municipal Theater is one of the main venues in Brazil and Latin America. In the last renovation, gems were found as a large original panel by the Italian Eliseu Visconti were rescued. Important areas of the Theater have been restored, with an emphasis on the imposing 350kg eagle that adorns the top of the building, which received 8 thousand gold leaves 23 carats of gilding.

Admission Ticket Not Included

Museu Nacional De Belas Artes

The National Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It concentrates the largest collection of works of art of the 19th century, being one of the most important museums of its kind in the country.

Admission Ticket Not Included

Convent of St. Anthony (Convento do Santo Antonio)

Convento de Santo Antônio is a Catholic monastery belonging to the Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception of Brazil located on the top of Morro de Santo Antônio and facing Largo da Carioca, in the city center of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. The convent forms, together with the neighboring Church of the Third Order of São Francisco da Penitência, one of the oldest and most important colonial groups remaining in the city.

Inclusions

  • Professional bilingual tour guide
  • Food and Drinks
  • Private transportation
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The tour is not private, but shared, and the guide will speak in English, Spanish and Portuguese
  • We do the tour, rain or shine. The day of the tour is chosen by the customer, therefore no refund will be generated in case of bad weather. We will do the tour rain or shine
  • The time indicated at the time of booking is only indicative. The day before the tour, we will contact you via WhatsApp or via the booking platform to confirm the exact time of pickup.
  • On days with a higher flow of tourists or in the presence of especially heavy traffic conditions, we can adopt the use of specific meeting points for picking up customers. This choice is made to ensure a more efficient organization of the tour, reducing the waiting times and inconveniences caused by traffic. Therefore, we invite our customers to read this note carefully to be informed and prepared.

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Pickup and Dropoff

You will make your own way to the meeting points

Meeting / End Points

  • Cinelândia in front of the Odeon Cinema

Redeem

Ticket Redemption

Direct access

Operator

RIO PASSEIOS EXPERIENCE