Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city of Brazil and known too many people as the "Marvellous City". It has a population of more than 6 million people. The City of Rio de Janeiro is quickly associated to good beaches like the Copacabana or Ipanema.

Many of us have the image of Rio de Janeiro recorded in our minds because of the statue of Christ the Redeemer that is situated on the Corcovado Mountain and frequently visited by tourists. On many occasions, we remember Rio de Janeiro when the date of the carnivals and its celebrations are near and this carnival is the most important and the most visited in the world. The Samba Schools and the Samba Dromes are an extraordinary spectacular for the tourists.

Rio de Janeiro has two airports, the Antonio Carlos Jobin International Airport for international flights, and the Santos Dumont Airport for domestic flights and inside the Mercasur.

Some of the places that you cannot miss in Rio de Janeiro are the Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Botofogo Beach, the Arporador Beach, the Barra de la Tijuca Beach, the Grumari Beach and the Lebron residential quarter together with its beach.