THE CITY OF NITERÓI

 

The city´s name is  Niterói located just 1 hour from Rio it´s one of the most beautiful fisherman village close to Rio de Janeiro all my customers want to have the  experience in this lovely town where we visit the port in jurujuba and lunch fresh seafood in one of the local restaurants  .

 

 

RECIFE AND OLINDA

 

As a tour guide my profession makes me  travel and I love it !  this time I  visited  the beautiful city of Recife ¨ the Venice of Brazil " I saw there  many  bridges, Islands and rivers that makes the city a place of lush natural beauty .

 

 




the contrast of nature and culture left by the dutch make this huge metropolitan area of the northeastern of  Brazil one of the most beautiful cities to be visited  it has a year-round tropical climate and a pleasent wind blowing in front of the beaches .

Arte Museum in Rio

The Art Museum  promotes a transversal reading of the city´s history,  its symbolic life, conflicts, contradictions, challenges and expectations. this exhibition misture the historical and contemporary art through exhibitions of long and short term, nationwide and internationally. The museum also comes with the mission of placing art in public education through the school of look.

 

Museu de Arte do Rio - in front of the Port of Rio de Janeiro at Praça Mauá n.5 - centro
CEP 20081-240
Rio de Janeiro/RJ
(21) 2203 1235  opens from tuesday to sunday  10am to 5pm  

 

The SEA is installed in Praca Maua, in two buildings interconnected and heterogeneous profiles: the mansion Dom
João VI, tumbled and eclectic, and the neighboring building, modernist style - originally a bus. The Palace houses the exhibition halls of the museum.
The neighboring building houses the School of look, which is an environment for production and provocative experiences, collective and personal, with the main focus on the formation of educators from public schools.

 

As recommended by UNESCO, the SEA has activities that involves collecting, recording, research, preservation and return of cultural property to the community - in the form of exhibitions, catalogs and educational programs in multimedia with his own collection - now in process of formation through acquisitions and donations

 SEA also has loans of works by some of the finest public and private collections in Brazil for the execution of it´s program.
SEA, opened in March 2013, serves as a space proactive support to education and works in partnership with the Municipal Education of Rio de Janeiro and other departments of education. The school Look develops an academic program, built in collaboration with universities  to discuss art, culture, image, education and curatorial practices.
The project is an initiative of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro and the Roberto Marinho Foundation, with Vale and Globo as sponsors and support of the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Ministry of Culture through the Federal Law for the encouragement of Culture.

SELARON STAIRCASE

The stairs located in Lapa in front of Rua Joaquim Silva is one of the attractions that my  customers like to visit the artist has  twenty years of tiling and re-tiling each step into a never-ending mosaic of colours he  received  tiles from all over the world and he collected as many tiles on his travels around the world when he decided to live in Brazil and began renovating the steps in 1990 .

he also used to paint many pictures and displays them with the tongue out one of his characteristics

we could easily find him sitting on the stairs with so many of his creations

there you´ll see tiles from over 60 countries around the world there are 250 steps measuring 125 metres long which are covered in over 2000 tiles

A NICE SUNDAY DAY IN RIO

Last week I was invited for a lunch and I couldn´t imagine how great was the place the name of this stunning area it´s Lajedo  located at vargem pequena in the city of Rio de Janeiro and close to the neighborhood of barra da tijuca and Recreio

we saw a nice samba show near the swimming pool with great dancers !

FRESH GRILLED SEAFOOD WITH MY FAMILY AT THE BEACH

 

in one of the most beautiful beaches in the city of Rio with a length  of 24 kms on a summer day I
went with my family my  mother, sisters and niece to have lunch at one of the kiosks located on the beach front .

I was invited by my older sister last  weekend on a sunny day and  we hvae  decided to enjoy the beach and the sun we also had one of our favorite dishes of seafood .

Yummy !!!!!  l´that was delicious ! finally comes our plate of grilled seafood simply lovely, a delight! we were all satisfied with the dish and ate so much , lol .

this adorable  lady is my mom she has  eighty-one years old she still looks beaufiful  and she is always positive about life, she accompanies us in all events that we go , she is  a lady beyond  her time she has always a kind word  for her  daughters, love you mom!

my niece loves photography like me and she was searching for the best  angles to take pcitures of the beach  and of her aunts and grandmother , wonderful pictures, thank you darling  , I love you!

OPEN FLEA MARKET - RUA DO LAVRADIO

when you visit Rio probrably I will take you to a open flea market that happens every first saturday of the month in downtown Rio you will see there  an antique fair at Lavradio street this open flea Market is part of my tours when you are there you feel that you returned to the past because they sell a bit of everything

in Brazil we have a lot of the African influence on the art of carving so there you will find animals in wood similar to the ones you find in Africa

while you walk through the Lavradio street you see old buildings dated from the XIX centtury most of them are being restored by the city council

when you are there  it´s interesting to stop at one of many bars and restaurants where you can enjoy the  snacks and listen to and authentic brazilian samba music

this flea market is near the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro that was inaugurated in 1976 after 12 years of construction  you cannot miss a visit to this church it´s dedicated to San Sebastian the patron of the city and consists of an enormous cone, complete with four beautiful stained-glass windows the cathedral interior is spacious, with enough room to fit over 20,000 people inside, and is home to many paintings, sculptures and murals which were completed by local artists .