Private Tour: Santa Teresa and Historic Center with Photo Service
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trip Type: Half-day Tours
Duration: 6 hours
Enjoy a private combo tour with a professional photographer. Visit the Historic Center and Santa Teresa and take home a digital album in high resolution (DVD and online back up) as well as a printed souvenir photo.Your tour includes hotel pickup and drop-off.
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Enjoy a private combo tour with a professional photographer. Visit the Historic Center and Santa Teresa and take home a digital album in high resolution (DVD and online back up) as well as a printed souvenir photo.Your tour includes hotel pickup and drop-off.
After private hotel pickup, you'll head to Santa Teresa and admire its preserved historic features. It stills has aspects of Old Rio and you'll see its squares filled with cultural spaces that reveal landscapes of North, South and Central areas. With mansions that are home to workshops, craft shops and restaurants Santa Teresa attracts many tourists, artists, writers and intellectuals.
You'll first head to the Selarón Stairs which are a masterpiece of Jorge Selarón. There are 250 steps measuring 125 meters long and covered in over 2,000 tiles collected from over 60 countries around the world. You'll then visit the Ruins Park that are a beautiful outlook that leaves Rio at your feet and then visit Chácara do Céu, which is the former residence of Raymundo Castro Maya. He was successful businessman who has dedicated his life to the culture of the city as patron and art collector and his house now functions as a museum.
Then, you'll visit the historic center, which is the perfect stop for history lovers. Here, you'll learn fun facts about the city's past and see the largest concentration of historic and financial buildings. The city center is dynamic and full of surprises. The tour is a journey through time and a dip in Brazilian culture that enriches the knowledge and values our artistic and cultural heritage. You will get to there by private transport and then follow by foot visiting the Cathedral, Colombo Tea House, Theater, National Library, Tiradentes Palace and Paço Imperial.
You'll then be dropped-off at your hotel.
You'll first head to the Selarón Stairs which are a masterpiece of Jorge Selarón. There are 250 steps measuring 125 meters long and covered in over 2,000 tiles collected from over 60 countries around the world. You'll then visit the Ruins Park that are a beautiful outlook that leaves Rio at your feet and then visit Chácara do Céu, which is the former residence of Raymundo Castro Maya. He was successful businessman who has dedicated his life to the culture of the city as patron and art collector and his house now functions as a museum.
Then, you'll visit the historic center, which is the perfect stop for history lovers. Here, you'll learn fun facts about the city's past and see the largest concentration of historic and financial buildings. The city center is dynamic and full of surprises. The tour is a journey through time and a dip in Brazilian culture that enriches the knowledge and values our artistic and cultural heritage. You will get to there by private transport and then follow by foot visiting the Cathedral, Colombo Tea House, Theater, National Library, Tiradentes Palace and Paço Imperial.
You'll then be dropped-off at your hotel.
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