Explore African and European cultural legacies in arts, cuisine, dance, and music. Visit Samba City, Valongo Wharf, and Pedra do Sal.
- Pedra do Sal - This local is considered Little Africa, one of the places in Rio where the samba was born.
- Cais do Valongo - Considered by UNESCO Human Heritage due to its importance to understanding the influence African culture in the Americas
- Instituto de Pesquisa e Memoria Pretos Novos - IPN - Visiting the cemetery of new blacks, watching a video describing the history of the arriving the Africans in America
- Cidade Do Samba - The place with twelve pavilions where main samba schools prepare its floats for the carnival parade at the Sambadrome
- Bottled water
- Snacks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (selected hotels only)
- Food and drinks
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.
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
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