praça xv is easily reachable via taxi in 15 minutes, or via several buses routing along copacabana and ipanema, including bus 354. 

the metrô station estação carioca is about a 10 minute-walk away from praça xv.

exiting the bus 33 at praia de salinas, on avenida carlos ermelindo marins, the road alameda marechal pessoal leal, leads directly to the forte do barão do rio branco and to the forte imbuhy.