in the northern zone of rio de janeiro, one can find the famous maracanã stadium near the popular neighborhood of tijuca, home to the parque nacional da tijuca (national park of tijuca), a variety of residential buildings, the famous polo gastronômico of praça varnhagen, as well as the large mall of shopping tijuca.

opening its doors for the first time in 1996, the shopping center is nowadays is home to over 300 stores of national and international brands, a bodytech gymnasium, a six-theater kinoplex cinema, a kid's area, an arcade room, as well as a food court - amongst some of the favorite restaurants available, there is outback steakhouse and gula gula.

its prime location near praça sans pena where the metrô stop sans pena can be found, makes the shopping center easily accesssible for tijuca residents as well as those coming from other zones of rio de janeiro - less than half an hour from the zona sul neighborhood of copacabana.