Rio Walking & Historical Tour

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From $34.50

5 reviews   (4.80)

Price varies by group size

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 3 hours

Departs: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

The best way to know the city you're visiting and feel like a local is by taking public transportation and walking through the streets to explore. The walking tour is a small group tour with a "Carioca" guide. You will be able to see and learn about the cultural and historical part of the city and visit Downtown's main attractions.

What's Included

Professional guide

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Traveler Information

  • CHILD: Age: 0 - 4
  • ADULT: Age: 5 - 99

Additional Info

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
  • Face masks required for travellers in public areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide -English and Spanish
  • Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Subject to favorable weather conditions. If canceled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date.
  • Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
  • Face masks required for travellers in public areas
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide -English and Spanish
  • Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
  • Subject to favorable weather conditions. If canceled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date.
  • Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers

What To Expect

Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
The Municipal Theater or Opera House is one of theJewels in Rio de Janeiro. It was built between 1906 and 1909 with the same architetural style of the Opera House in Paris with Eclectic Architectural style.

• Admission Ticket Free

Paco Imperial
The Paço Imperial or Imperial Palace, previously known as the Royal Palace of Rio de Janeiro and Palace of the Viceroys, is a historic building.The Paço Imperial was built in the 18th century to serve as residence for the governors of colonial Brazil. From 1808, it was used as a royal residence by King John VI of Portugal as King of Portugal and later also as King of Brazil.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - CCBB Rio de Janeiro
The CCBB in Rio de Janeiro is a building of neoclassical lines that in the past was connected to finance and business. Its foundation stone was launched in 1880, materializing the project of Francisco Joaquim Bethencourt da Silva (1831-1912), architect of the Imperial House, founder of the Society of Fine Arts and the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

National Library (Biblioteca Nacional)
The largest library in Latin America and the 7th largest in the world, its collections include about 9 million items.It organized the first library science courses in Latin America and its staff has led the modernization of library services, including the development of online databases

• Admission Ticket Free

Church of Our Lady of the Candelaria
The Candelária Church is an important historical Roman Catholic church in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It was built and decorated during a long period, from 1775 to the late 19th century. The church combines a Baroque facade with a neoclassical and Neo-Renaissance interior elements.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Convent of St. Anthony (Convento do Santo Antonio)
The history of the Convent of St. Anthony begins in 1592, when the first Franciscan friars arrived in Rio de Janeiro, who settled provisionally near the Beach of Santa Luzia. Shortly afterwards, the Franciscans erected a small hermitage on the top of a hill located in an area a little further from the coast. In 1607, they were granted definitive possession of the hill, now known as Morro de Santo Antônio, in which they began to build the convent on June 4, 1608. The author of the first project was Brother Francisco dos Santos, but several others religious-Franciscan architects interfered in the work.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Praca Quinze de Novembro
The square is located in the historical centre of Rio de Janeiro and is flanked by the Palácio Tiradentes , the seat of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro; and the Paço Imperial. The Praça XV Station is a ferry terminal servicing a number of destinations in the city of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cinelandia
Cinelândia is the popular name of a major public square in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its official name is Praça Floriano Peixoto, in honour of the second president of Brazil, Floriano Peixoto.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Arco do Teles
In 1738 the House of Governors (later to become the Imperial Palace) begins to be built under the command of Gomes Freire de Andrade, Count of Bobadela. In 1743 the construction of the new House of Governors is finished and the Largo do Paço region gains a great appreciation. Seeing the growth of the area, the Portuguese judge Antônio Telles Barreto de Menezes (who gave rise to the name of the arch) decides to buy land in the area and build a house, or a set of houses, in order to rent to merchants that came to visit Rio de janeiro

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Casa Franca-Brasil
It is an imposing neoclassical solar, designed by Grandjean de Montigny, member of the French Artistic Mission (1816) and professor of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. Commissioned by João VI of Portugal in 1819 for the installation of the city's first Commerce Square, it was inaugurated on May 13, 1820.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Centro Cultural Justica Federal
The Federal Justice Cultural Center (CCJF), an institution linked to the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region, occupies the former seat of the Federal Supreme Court. Its construction began in 1905, as an integral part of the project of reformulation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, then Federal Capital, in the administration of the mayor Pereira Passos. Originally intended to house the Mithra Archiepiscopal, the building was purchased for the installation of the Supreme and had its solemn inauguration on April 3, 1909. Designed by the architect Adolpho Morales de Los Rios, the building is one of the most important testimonies of eclectic architecture in City.

• Admission Ticket Free

Correios Cultural Centre
Built to house the school of the Lloyd Brazilian shipping company, the building was inaugurated in 1922. The projected school, however, was never installed, and the property was used for more than five decades for the operation of administrative units and of the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Sao Francisco da Penitencia Church
The laity of the Order of the Third Order of San Francisco settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1619, occupying a chapel inside the church of the Franciscan convent of Santo Antônio, located on the top of a hill (the Morro de Santo Antônio). In the middle of the seventeenth century, the Franciscan convent gave them a plot of land next to the convent's church to build their own temple there. The Church of St. Francis of Penance was built, with interruptions, between 1657 and 1733.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Tiradentes Palace
The first building was an imperial parliament, built in 1640, which had on its lower floor a chain called the "Old Chain," where the prisoners of the colonial period were housed, and where Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (the Tiradentes), while waiting for execution on the gallows, which would happen on April 21, 1792.

• Admission Ticket Free

Palacio Pedro Ernesto - Camara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
It was founded together with the city in 1565, when it was formed only by a prosecutor and a judge. Two years later, there was the first election for the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro. At each election, twelve councilors were elected for a year, with the President of the House accumulating the functions of the current municipal mayors.

• Admission Ticket Free

Reviews

A very interesting tour for first...
Himawan M, 03-01-2018

A very interesting tour for first time visitors in Rio. Many places and atractions we saw that we do not know before.

Leonardo was a very good and patient guide for the three of us.

We are very satisfied with this tour

Because it was afternoon and 102...
Kristin_H, 11-01-2017

Because it was afternoon and 102 degrees no one else was interested in a walking tour, so we had a private tour. Our guide Tauan was the best.....very knowledgeable, considerate, good sense of humor. We walked for 4 hours, rode the subway, and saw things we never would have found on our own, like the money exhibit in the museum in the bank building. A wonderful experience all around!

This was a fantastic walking tour...
Jeremy P, 18-08-2016

This was a fantastic walking tour and I emphasize walking. Be prepared for 3 to 4 hours on your feet. The pace was casual so we didn't feel over exerted, but we still got to see so much. Our guide Heraclito aka Kiko was terrific. We had a mixup on our location at the beginning of the tour, called the company and Kiko came to our Metro Station to meet us. We started in Cinelandia and finished at the Olympic torch. Didn't count all the sites we saw, but I'm sure 15 is a fair number. We never felt rushed and saw sites like the Catedral de Sao Sebastiao that we may never had ventured to on our own. It was a very good introduction to Centro Rio and I would recommend at the beginning of a trip to Rio.

Tour historico y cultural a pie por Rio de Janeiro
Silvia Q, 14-01-2019
El punto de partida es la estacion de Metro Cinelandia, un conjunto arquitectonico del 1900 alrededor de la cual estan el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, el Teatro Municipal, la Casa de la Opera, la Biblioteca Nacional , el Palacio del Ayuntamiento. Siempre caminando, el guia relata parte de la historia colonial de Brasdil, visitando Iglesia Santo Antonio, Sao Francisco, la Catedral Nuova y la Praca XV . Un tour diferente, al final cada uno colabora con el guia que pertenece a la direccion de turismo de Rio. Empieza a las 9hs
historia viva
MLaura0R, 29-02-2020
apesar dos anos a historia continua viva,através das ruelas,luminarias,calçamento,
cada canto um detalhe ..deviamos explorar mais esse centro cultural

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