hence, the shopping in ipanemais excellent, with an abundance ofshops, boutiques and jewelry stores concentratedparticularly along garcia d'avila, visconde de pirajá and maria quitéria streets. the areais also home to some of the best traditional bars and restaurants, including bar vinte, paz e amor, and garota de ipanema - where the aforementioned song was written.  

furthermore, ipanema was the center of the cultural and political movements between the 1950s and 1970s, and some of the finestbrazilian intellectuals of the period were known to frequent its streets. The famous Posto 9 has been a cultural and intellectual crossroads for the localand international elite for decades, and even today it is not uncommon to see notable artists and other public figures roaming the beach.