in fact, while ipanema was rio's intellectual epicenter in the mid twentieth century, artists such as gilberto gil, caetano veloso, and chico buarque were known to escape to leblon at times, to have a meal or drink in tranquility.

nowadays leblon is home to some of rio's cultural, political, and economic elite and, along with ipanema, possesses the most expensive real estate in all of brazil.

set along a beautiful beach of white sands and clear water, leblon forms the division between the gávea, lagoa, ipanema, and vidigal neighborhoods, and is surrounded by natural attractions such as rodrigo de freitas lake, and the morro dois irmãos peak.