All 79 rooms and 10 suites have a balcony and most with a sea view. Its friendly bilingual staff, wireless internet connection, and competitive rates make this one of the few good-value budget hotels in Ipanema. Located in the heart of Leblon, Rio's most expensive square metre, Ritz Plaza Hotel Leblon offers quality services at affordable prices.
A generous buffet breakfast is included and the hotel has up-to-date facilities, including spa and a small pool. It's a couple of blocks in from the beach and close to cinemas, theatres, shops, restaurants and the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. This no-frills but clean and well-run hotel is highly rated among regular visitors to Rio. It's in a handy location between downtown and the Zona Sul, in an historic, up-and-coming district.
The rooms are clean and comfortable, the buffet breakfast is excellent, and facilities include a spa, gym and small roof terrace. In all, the Regina is one of the best budget hotels in the city.
This hostel in an old colonial building in Santa Teresa has basic dorms as well as three- and four-bed rooms, which are ideal for families. No attempt was made by the explorers to land at this time, although the records show that the ships returned in and set up camp for some time at Cabo Frio, slightly east of Rio, and one can only presume that they would have visited the bay again at this time.
What would appear to be agreed by all is that the first colonists in Rio were neither Portuguese nor Spanish, nor even Italian, but French. In , history records that men under the command of Admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon disembarked at a little, low lying island to which they gave the name of Coligny.
Today, that island is known as Villegaignon and has virtually disappeared to become part of the mainland with the landfill that went to make Santos Dumont Airport in downtown Rio. Villegaignon built a fort on the island and from there began to explore the bay reinforcing his position, in , with the arrival of a further thousand French settlers.
The growth of Rio was slow. By , the city consisted of just three roads, the main one of which is now Rua da Misericordia. The turning point in the development of Rio was to come in the s when gold was discovered in the neighbouring state of Minas Gerais General Mines. As one of the nearest seaports to the gold fields, Rio became the logical point for the Portuguese to base their taxing and control operations.
News of the gold spread, however, and in the Portuguese settlers found themselves under siege from the French. The following year, , Rio was not so lucky. With a fleet of 18 ships and over 5, troops, the French, under Rene Duguay—Trouin, tried again.
Entering the harbor on September 12 and forcing their way in to the city, the French force sacked Rio and left the city almost totally destroyed. After a heavy ransom had been paid, the French departed. Little is recorded as to what happened between and except that during that time the population of Rio swelled to over 30, To cope with the demands and needs of the growing population work began, in , on the Aqueduto da Carioca Carioca Aqueduct , or simply the Arcos as it is known today.
The Arcos was built to bring fresh water down from the forest of Santa Teresa to the public fountain in what is now the Largo da Carioca. Today, and since , those same arches have served as the base for a viaduct that links the bondinhos little street cars from the hill of Santo Antonio to that of Santa Teresa.
Capital of Brazil. As Rio outgrew Bahia it was given the honour, in , of being named as the capital of the Vice—Royalty of Brazil while the wealth attracted to Rio by the continuing gold—rush brought with it the first trappings of European civilization. Your answer:. Correct answer:. Now we know a little more about the history of Rio de Janeiro! See you later! Capital of Brazil By the second half of the 17th century, Rio de Janeiro was considered the most populous city in Brazil with about 30 thousand residents.
As the Portuguese royals migrated back to Portugal to deal with the insurrection in Porto, Prince Dom Pedro decided to stay back in Brazil.
This day became known as the Dia do Fico. Proclamation of the Republic Less than a century after Independence, Brazil would finally put imperialism and monarchy aside. Revolta da Vacina The Revolta da Vacina Vaccine Revolt took place in after a law was passed declaring that vaccination against smallpox was mandatory.
How about a little quiz? Practice your Portuguese by using what you just studied! Your answer: Correct answer: Next. Your Answers. Previous post The history of Salvador in Brazil. Gold became the main export item, and much of it went through Rio to Portugal. Throughout these years, the city was the economic and political center of Brazil, home to the pomp of the monarchy and the intrigue of the republic.
There are just over 6 million residents of Rio proper, but an additional 8 million live in suburbs ringing the city. Many are poor by American or European standards — at least 70 percent. But there is the beach and there is the samba and there is Carnival. Nothing quite prepares you for Rio, which Brazilians call a cidade maravilhosa — the marvellous city: not the postcards, not the films, not the reports. There are other cities that have grown up backed by mountains and fronted by the sea, but there is none where the play of light, the shifting of shadows, the mix of colours and hues are so vibrant and mobile.
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