at a glance

full urbanization followed, creating a unique and beautiful neighborhoods, filled with many significant and loved points of interest - the sugar loaf mountain (pão de açúcar) looms large on the skyline overlooking rio de janeiro's harbor.

christ the redeemer can be seen in the distance and is one of the city's major attractions located at the mouth of guanabara bay, a site that postcards the world over - The granite colossus and the bay shares the view along with copacabana beach, the morro dois irmãos, pedra da gávea, the cagarras islands, and also visible are the morro da urca, botafogo bay, flamengo park, glória and the center of town, across the guanabara bay stretches the rio-niterói bridge and the praia de icaraí in niterói, ilha fiscal, and the coastline towards the região dos lagos.