For one weekend each winter, painters, sculptors and visual artists throw open the doors of their homes and studios in the creative heartland of the city - the beautiful and bohemian hillside neighborhood of Santa Teresa - for an event called Arte de Portas Abertas (Open Doors Art).

Since 2003, Rio de Janeiro State has hosted the highly prestigious FLIP festival in the charming and historic town of Paraty. The International Festival of Literature has brought together some of the best-loved and critically acclaimed contemporary writers, including Julian Barnes, Don DeLillo and Hanif Kureishi.