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By Free Walker Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is €36 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Come learn more about the origin of samba, carnival, capoeira, and African-based religions. To know stories like those of Tia Ciata, Mercedes Batista, and Hilário Jovino. To understand everything that happened in our history of slavery that explains a lot about modern-day Rio de Janeiro. To truly know a country, or a city, it is necessary to know its history. And the best way to learn about history is by walking where it happened.
    During the tour, you will learn and reframe the history of Rio and Brazil while appreciating the beauties of the Centre, in a relaxed way. At the end of the tour, you will create a unique connection and vision of the city that you could never achieve without a guide.
    An environmentally sustainable tour that passes through the most important places in the historic centre.

Activity location

  • Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR
    • Praca Maua n 10, Praca Maua
    • 20090-060, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Praça Mauá
    • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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African Heritage Walk in the Port Area of Rio!

  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English
Price details
€35.67 x 1 Adult€35.67
Total
Price is €35.67
Until Mon, 12 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Free Guides

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR

  • 15m
We show the museum and tell the storey behind the museum.

Bafo da Prainha

  • 30m
Bafo da Prainha is a bohemian square full of bars and restaurants in the centre of the city of Rio, also composed of a lot of history and amazing monuments!

Morro da Conceicao

  • 40m
Morro da Conceição is an important community for the history of Rio de Janeiro, there we can find ancient churches, commerce and residences of the Old River, in addition to passing through the real life happening in the Morro.

Pedra do Sal

  • 30m
A small square in the heart of Little Africa. They say this is the cot of the samba! Part of the historic heritage of the city, the Pedra do Sal also receives a traditional samba wheel every Monday night!

Cais do Valongo

  • 30m
Cais do Valongo is an important historical heritage, considered by UNESCO. It was the main port of entry for enslaved people in the Americas and today it is an archaeological site, as countless traces of enslaved people have been found in Cais.

Kobra "Etnias" Mural

  • 30m
The world's largest graphite made by an artist is located on the Olympic Boulevard! A painting by a Brazilian artist, Eduardo Kobra, as a project of the 2016 Rio Olympics. The painting is 3000 square metres!

Location

Activity location

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    Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR
    • Praca Maua n 10, Praca Maua
    • 20090-060, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Praça Mauá
    • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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