📍 Rio de Janeiro tourist map

Cristo Redentor

Corcovado · 710 m

The world's most famous embrace. Yes, it's touristy. Yes, it's worth every penny.

Tip: Book the little train online and take the first slot: fewer crowds, fewer clouds.

🚇 Largo do Machado — L1/L2 + trem do Corcovado

Featured in: Maravilla del mundo

Pão de Açúcar

Urca · 396 m

Two glass cable cars up to the rock that sums up all of Rio.

Tip: Go up 90 minutes before sunset and ride down at night with the city all lit up.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 512

Featured in: Google Top

Escadaria Selarón

Lapa · Santa Teresa

215 steps tiled with azulejos from all over the world, the work of one obsessive Chilean.

Tip: Before 9 am it's nearly empty; after that it's a line of tripods.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

Featured in: Viral TikTok

Jardim Botânico

Jardim Botânico · 1808

54 hectares of imperial palms, orchids and monkeys giving you side-eye.

Tip: Enter through the Rua Pacheco Leão gate to start with the Orquidário.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Histórico 1808

Parque Lage

Jardim Botânico

A mansion with a pool and the Cristo peeking out behind: Rio's most copied photo.

Tip: It's free and opens at 8 am. Have breakfast at the Plage Café in the courtyard and you're set.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 409

Featured in: Trending IG

Museu do Amanhã

Praça Mauá · Calatrava

Calatrava's white skeleton over the bay, with exhibits all about the future.

Tip: Free on Tuesdays. Pair it with the MAR, just 300 meters away.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Parada dos Museus

Featured in: Google Top

MAR — Museu de Arte do Rio

Praça Mauá

A palacete and a modern building joined by a concrete wave. Pure carioca art.

Tip: Head up to the 8th-floor terrace: bay views at no extra cost.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Praça Mauá

Featured in: Google Top

MAM — Arte Moderna

Parque do Flamengo

Affonso Reidy brutalism and Burle Marx gardens facing the sea.

Tip: The Burle Marx garden around it is free and worth the walk.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

Featured in: Google Top

Real Gabinete Português

Centro · 1887

One of the most beautiful libraries on the planet — and entry is free.

Tip: Weekdays only, until 5 pm. Absolute silence inside.

🚇 Carioca — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1887

Theatro Municipal

Cinelândia · 1909

The Paris Opera gone tropical, with marble, mosaics and plenty of gold.

Tip: Take the morning guided tour: they let you step onto the stage.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1909

Maracanã

Maracanã

The temple. If there's a Fla-Flu on, go — even if you don't like football.

Tip: Buy the tour ticket online; there are no visits on match days.

🚇 Maracanã — L2

Featured in: Google Top

Praia de Ipanema · Posto 9

Ipanema

The most carioca sand there is: caipirinha, iced mate and Dois Irmãos in the background.

Tip: Rent a chair and umbrella from the barraqueiro: 30 reais and it saves your day.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Google Top

Praia de Copacabana

Copacabana · 4 km

Four kilometers of wave-pattern promenade, beach football and vendors shouting.

Tip: Posto 2 to 4 is the best stretch; Posto 6 is calmer and family-friendly.

🚇 Cardeal Arcoverde — L1

Featured in: Google Top

Praia do Leblon

Leblon

Calmer and more family-style than Ipanema, with the Baixo Bebê for the little ones.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Google Top

Mirante do Leblon

Avenida Niemeyer

A balcony over the sea where the sunset hits all of Ipanema just right.

Tip: Bring something to drink: there's no kiosk and the sunset takes its time.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4 + bus

Featured in: Trending IG

Pedra do Arpoador

Arpoador · Ipanema

The rock where Rio applauds the sun as it sinks behind Dois Irmãos.

Tip: Get there 40 minutes before sunset: it gets seriously packed.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Viral TikTok

Mirante Dona Marta

Botafogo · 340 m

The lookout where EVERYTHING fits in one photo: Cristo, Pão and the bay.

Tip: No bus goes up: take an Uber and ask it to wait — there's no signal to call another.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + taxi

Featured in: Viral TikTok

Vista Chinesa

Floresta da Tijuca · 380 m

An oriental pagoda deep in the jungle overlooking the Lagoa, Ipanema and Leblon.

Tip: Pair it with the Mesa do Imperador, 10 minutes further up.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + taxi

Featured in: Trending IG

Pedra Bonita

São Conrado · 696 m

An easy 40-minute trail, and up top the best view of the Zona Sul.

Tip: Leave at dawn: after 10 am the sun on the rock is brutal.

🚇 São Conrado — L4 + van

Featured in: Trending IG

Pedra do Telégrafo

Barra de Guaratiba

The optical-illusion rock: you look like you're dangling over the abyss — you're not.

Tip: It's 2 hours from Centro: leave early and bring water, there's nothing up top.

🚇 Jardim Oceânico — L4 + bus 867

Featured in: Viral TikTok

Mureta da Urca

Urca

A stone wall where the whole neighborhood sits down with beer and pastel.

Tip: Grab your beer at Bar Urca and sit on the mureta like a local.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 512

Featured in: Viral TikTok

Praia Vermelha

Urca

A tiny beach tucked between the Pão de Açúcar and Morro da Babilônia.

Tip: Start the Pista Cláudio Coutinho here: a flat, free trail with monkeys.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 512

Featured in: Google Top

Arcos da Lapa

Lapa · 1750

A colonial aqueduct that turns into party central after dark.

Tip: Friday and Saturday from 10 pm it's pure street samba. Watch your phone.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1750

Largo dos Guimarães

Santa Teresa

The bohemian heart of the bondinho's neighborhood: studios, botecos and cobblestones.

Tip: Ride the yellow bondinho up from Centro: 20 reais of pure postcard.

🚇 Bondinho Santa Teresa — Largo dos Guimarães

Featured in: Google Top

Feira de São Cristóvão

São Cristóvão

The entire Northeast packed into one warehouse: forró, carne de sol and baião de dois.

Tip: Open Thursday to Sunday. Go Friday night — the forró doesn't stop until sunrise.

🚇 São Cristóvão — L2

Featured in: Histórico 1945

Ilha Fiscal

Bahía de Guanabara

A neo-Gothic green mini-castle that hosted the Empire's last ball in 1889.

Tip: Entry is only via the Navy's boat tour; book ahead.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Praça XV

Featured in: Histórico 1889

Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas

Lagoa

7.5 km of bike path around the water with the Cristo watching you the whole way.

Tip: Rent a bike at Parque do Cantagalo and do the loop at sunset.

🚇 Cantagalo — L1/L4

Featured in: Google Top

Forte de Copacabana

Posto 6

A 1914 fortress with cannons, an Army museum and the best view of the beach.

Tip: The Colombo is inside: coffee overlooking all of Copacabana.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Histórico 1914

Mosteiro de São Bento

Centro · 1590

A sober facade hiding a delirium of carved wood covered in gold.

Tip: Sunday 10 am mass comes with the monks' Gregorian chant. Stunning.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1590

Catedral Metropolitana

Centro · Lapa

A concrete pyramid like a Mayan cone with four 64-meter stained-glass windows.

Tip: Go around midday: the light coming through the stained glass is something else.

🚇 Carioca — L1/L2

Featured in: Google Top

Morro Dois Irmãos

Vidigal · 533 m

A trail from Vidigal up to the summit that crowns Ipanema and Leblon.

Tip: Take a moto-taxi to the trailhead, or it's a 40-minute uphill slog.

🚇 São Conrado — L4 + moto-taxi

Featured in: Trending IG

Praça Mauá · Boulevard Olímpico

Porto Maravilha

A giant Kobra mural, food trucks and skaters: the recycled port district.

Tip: Kobra's Etnias mural covers 3,000 m2: the world's largest done in spray paint.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Praça Mauá

Featured in: Google Top

Corcovado · Trem

Cosme Velho

The century-old little train climbing through the Tijuca jungle up to the Cristo.

Tip: Book your time slot online; without a ticket you'll wait two hours standing.

🚇 Largo do Machado — L1/L2 + bus 583

Featured in: Histórico 1884

Lasai

Humaitá · 2 estrellas

Ten diners a night around Rafa Costa e Silva's kitchen. Another level.

Tip: Book a month ahead; the menu changes every single day.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Michelin 2★ · 50 Best

Oro

Leblon · Felipe Bronze

Fire and Brazilian avant-garde in 14 courses that will make you applaud.

Tip: The Criatividade menu adds two more courses and is worth the difference.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Michelin 2★ 2026

Oteque

Botafogo · Landgraf

A 1938 house, an open kitchen and eight impeccable courses of fish and vegetables.

Tip: Ask for a seat at the counter: you get the kitchen's full choreography.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Michelin 1★ · 50 Best

Madame Olympe

Leblon · Troisgros

Claude Troisgros's latest: five ingredients max per dish and a star right away.

Tip: The four-course menu is Rio's most accessible fine dining.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Michelin 1★ 2026

Casa 201

Jardim Botânico

Frankenfeld makes everything in-house: charcuterie, cheeses, miso, even the ketchup.

Tip: Tasting menu only, reservations only. Ask for the upstairs dining room.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Michelin 1★

Oseille

Ipanema · Thomas Troisgros

Claude's son cooking gutsy French upstairs from Toto. A well-earned star.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Michelin 1★

Mee

Copacabana Palace

A 19-course omakase at the edge of Brazil's most famous pool.

Tip: Book early and stay for a drink at the hotel bar.

🚇 Cardeal Arcoverde — L1

Featured in: Michelin 1★

Cipriani

Copacabana Palace

Gala Italian with mirrors, chandeliers and pool views. Closed for renovation until 2026.

🚇 Cardeal Arcoverde — L1

Featured in: Michelin 1★

San Omakase

Leblon · 8 lugares

Eight seats at André Kawai's counter. Rio's first Michelin-starred Japanese.

Tip: One seating per night: book via Tock weeks in advance.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Michelin 1★

Koral

Ipanema · Pedro Coronha

A Noma alumnus now grilling everything over fire, even the lettuce. Bib Gourmand.

Tip: Michelin Young Chef 2026 award. Order anything from the sea — it's his strength.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Bib Gourmand 2026

Brota

Botafogo · vegetariano

A lovely old house and Roberta Ciasca's vegetarian cooking that never misses the meat.

Tip: The tomato, pesto and olive brotinhas are a mandatory starter.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Sult

Botafogo · italiano

Italian with a northern-Brazilian accent: pirarucu with tucupi and jambu risotto.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Lilia

Centro · sobrado 1900

A four-course lunch for under 120 reais in the heart of Centro. Unheard of.

Tip: The executive lunch is the best value for money in the city.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Miam Miam

Botafogo · desde 2005

Comfort food in the chef's grandmother's house, retro furniture and all.

Tip: Save room for the cookie sandwich with vanilla ice cream.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Pici Trattoria

Ipanema · Praça NS da Paz

A bright trattoria with truffled mushroom fettuccine and wagyu polpetone.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Didier

Ipanema · franco-brasilero

Escargots and French-style moqueca on the same menu. Sounds odd, works.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Maria e o Boi

Ipanema · Brasil profundo

Real Brazilian cooking at human prices, with a terrace and rustic charm.

Tip: The fish and shrimp vatapá croquete is the signature dish.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Artigiano

Ipanema · Emilia-Romagna

Over 30 fresh pastas and wood-fired pizza, with a veranda facing the Lagoa.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Bib Gourmand

Gero

Hotel Fasano · Ipanema

The Fasano's Italian with a veranda by the beach. The carbonara is an institution.

Tip: The weekday executive menu puts the Fasano within reach.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Time Out Top 10

Casa do Sardo

São Cristóvão · Sardegna

All of Sardegna in a São Cristóvão warehouse. Order the bottarga and the polpo.

Tip: The polpo alla marinara serves two and costs less than a flight to Cagliari.

🚇 São Cristóvão — L2

Featured in: Time Out Top 10

Grado

Jardim Botânico · Liguria

A 1940s house with a wood-fired oven and a three-course set menu that never fails.

🚇 Cantagalo — L1/L4 + bus

Featured in: Time Out Top 10

Ocyá

Leblon · pescados madurados

Gerônimo Athuel dry-ages fish like it's beef. Nothing you've tasted before.

Tip: The fire-grilled aged fillet with parsley aioli is the dish to start with.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Michelin Recomendado

Chez Claude

Leblon · Troisgros

An open kitchen in the middle of the room and classics from Claude's grandmother.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Time Out Top 15

Malta Beef Club

Jardim Botânico · carnes

Sharing cuts from the supplier to half of Rio. There's A5 wagyu if you feel like splurging.

Tip: The Denver Steak with fries and egg farofa is the smart play.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Comer & Beber

Satyricon

Ipanema · desde 1986

An oyster and fish counter right at the entrance. Won Comer & Beber for seafood.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2025

Sud, o Pássaro Verde

Jardim Botânico · Sudbrack

Roberta Sudbrack cooks in a clay oven as if she'd invited you into her home.

Tip: The bolo de chocolate molhadinho is already urban legend. Order it.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Time Out Top 20

Teva

Ipanema · vegetariano

Laid-back vegetarian with organics from small producers. Everything made to share.

Tip: The mushroom and lentil Wellington is the dish that wins over carnivores.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Time Out Top 20

Irajá Redux

Leblon · Pedro de Artagão

Odd pairings that land: lobster mac and cheese, picadinho, wagyu.

Tip: The brigadeiro cake is rated one of the best in Rio.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Time Out Top 20

Babbo Osteria

Ipanema · italiano

Elia Schramm's handmade pastas: pappardelle with a ragù cooked for 12 hours.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4

Featured in: Michelin Recomendado

.Org Bistrô

Ipanema · vegano

Tati Lund proves vegan haute cuisine exists — and it's colorful too.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Time Out Top 25

Ferro e Farinha

Botafogo · pizza napolitana

Rio's best pizzeria per Comer & Beber. Thin base, puffy crust, line out the door.

Tip: No reservations: show up at 6:30 pm or wait an hour standing, beer in hand.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2025

Rufino Parrilla

Leblon · asado argentino

A porteño grill in Leblon: ojo de bife, tira de asado and potato tortilla.

Tip: Missing Buenos Aires? This is the cure. Cuts imported from Argentina.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2025

Elena

Jardim Botânico · coctelería

Comer & Beber 2025's best Asian and a championship-level cocktail bar.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2025

Casa do Saulo

Museu do Amanhã · Amazonía

Pará cooking facing the bay: pirarucu feijoqueca and jambu caipirinha.

Tip: Ask for a window table; late afternoon over the bay is memorable.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Parada dos Museus

Featured in: Time Out Top 25

Bar do Mineiro

Santa Teresa · desde 1994

Feijoada every day, walls papered with photos and cachaça flowing freely.

Tip: Saturday lunch means the full feijoada. Arrive before 1 pm.

🚇 Bondinho Santa Teresa — Largo dos Guimarães

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Nova Capela

Lapa · desde 1903

Roast kid goat with broccoli and garlic, served by bow-tied waiters until 5 am.

Tip: Open till 5 am: the mandatory stop after Lapa.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1903

Bar Urca

Urca · desde 1939

Buy at the counter and sit on the mureta with the Pão de Açúcar right beside you.

Tip: Shrimp pastéis and an ice-cold beer, then straight to the mureta. Carioca ritual.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 512

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Jobi

Leblon · desde 1956

The boteco where all of Leblon ends the night. Always impeccable chope.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Bracarense

Leblon · desde 1948

A corner boteco with the best bolinhos in the city and a fiercely loyal crowd.

Tip: Order the aipim and carne seca bolinho; it's the place's whole reason to exist.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Bar da Frente

Praça da Bandeira

Rio's best boteco per Comer & Beber 2025. Razor-sharp kitchen, zero pretense.

Tip: It's right across from Aconchego Carioca: do both in one night.

🚇 Estácio — L1/L2 + bus

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2025

Aconchego Carioca

Praça da Bandeira

Feijoada bolinho, crispy outside and creamy inside. A national invention.

Tip: The feijoada bolinho is what made this place famous. Don't skip it.

🚇 Estácio — L1/L2 + bus

Featured in: Comer & Beber

Adega Pérola

Copacabana · desde 1957

A Portuguese counter with 40 conservas: octopus, anchovies, quail eggs.

Tip: Point at whatever you want on the counter and order a vinho verde. Perfect system.

🚇 Siqueira Campos — L1

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Cervantes

Copacabana · desde 1955

The pork and pineapple sandwich that has saved millions of cariocas at 4 am.

Tip: Order the pernil with cheese and pineapple. Yes, pineapple. Trust.

🚇 Cardeal Arcoverde — L1

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Bar Luiz

Centro · desde 1887

Chope and German food at the oldest bar in Rio still in business.

Tip: Sausage with potato salad and chope. The recipe hasn't changed in 130 years.

🚇 Carioca — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1887

Bar Lagoa

Lagoa · desde 1934

Art déco facing the Lagoa, veteran waiters and an enormous filé à parmegiana.

🚇 Cantagalo — L1/L4

Featured in: Boteco histórico

Casa da Feijoada

Ipanema

Full feijoada seven days a week, with a caipirinha to start.

Tip: Come properly hungry: a single portion feeds two.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Google Top

Garota de Ipanema

Ipanema · bossa nova

Where Tom Jobim and Vinicius wrote the song. Touristy and charming all the same.

Tip: Come for the history and a chope, not the food. Sit out on the sidewalk.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Histórico 1962

Curto Café

Centro · pagá lo que quieras

You pay what you think the espresso is worth. And it's still among Rio's best.

Tip: Weekdays only and it closes very early. Go in the morning.

🚇 Carioca — L1/L2

Featured in: Pionero specialty

Coffee Five

Centro · Rua do Carmo

Ranked 92 among the world's 100 best coffee shops in 2026. Enough said.

Tip: The oat-milk flat white with the tiramisu in a cup is the combo.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: World 100 Best 2026

The Slow Bakery

Botafogo · masa madre

Rio's best sourdough bread and a cold brew that wakes the dead.

Tip: The grilled cheese on sourdough is the definitive breakfast.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Trending IG

Confeitaria Colombo

Centro · desde 1894

Belle Époque with Belgian mirrors and stained glass. Order the pastel de Belém and time-travel.

Tip: Head up to the first-floor Salão de Chá; afternoon tea is the experience.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1894

Casa Cavé

Centro · desde 1860

Rio's oldest confeitaria, with a marble counter and Portuguese pastries.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1860

Colombo · Forte de Copacabana

Posto 6

The Colombo inside the fort, with all of Copacabana beach as the backdrop.

Tip: You pay the fort's entry fee, but you get the city's best coffee with a view.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Google Top

Plage Café

Parque Lage

Breakfast in the palacete's courtyard with the Cristo peeking above. Unreal.

Tip: Go at 9 am on a weekday: later it's a 40-minute line for the photo.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2 + bus 409

Featured in: Trending IG

Talho Capixaba

Leblon · desde 1946

The deli-café where Leblon has breakfast: sandwiches, cheeses and fresh-baked bread.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Google Top

Cafeína

Leblon · Rita Ludolf

A carioca chain done right: decent cappuccino and toasted sandwiches at any hour.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Google Top

Armazém do Café

Leblon · Ataulfo de Paiva

Roasting their own beans since the 90s, when nobody here talked about specialty coffee.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Pionero specialty

Café do Alto

Santa Teresa

A northeastern café in Santa Teresa with tapioca, cuscuz and rooftop views.

Tip: Cuscuz with queijo coalho and drip coffee is the perfect post-bondinho breakfast.

🚇 Bondinho Santa Teresa — Largo dos Guimarães

Featured in: Google Top

Bazzar Café

Ipanema · Barão da Torre

Ipanema brunch with pães de queijo and eggs that justify getting out of bed.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

Featured in: Google Top

Mimo Café

Flamengo

Named coffee shop of the year by Veja Rio Comer & Beber. Tiny and perfect.

🚇 Largo do Machado — L1/L2

Featured in: Comer & Beber 2026

Café Lamas

Flamengo · desde 1874

150 years serving filé à cavalo and coffee to politicians, bohemians and night owls.

Tip: Open till 2 am: the classic stop after the theater.

🚇 Largo do Machado — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1874

Confeitaria Kurt

Leblon · desde 1943

A German pastry shop in Leblon with strudel and cakes that never changed.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Histórico 1943

The Bakers

Copacabana · Santa Clara

A neighborhood bakery with cinnamon rolls and sandwiches that save the morning.

🚇 Siqueira Campos — L1

Featured in: Google Top

Empório Jardim

Ipanema · Fórum

Breakfast with sourdough bread, granola and fresh juices in the heart of Ipanema.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Google Top

Enredo Café

Horto · Jardim Botânico

House-made bagels, vegan toasts and espresso with brigadeiro. Yes, it exists.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Time Out Rio

Shopping Leblon

Leblon

Rio's poshest mall, with a dining terrace and a good cinema.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

Featured in: Google Top

Rio Sul

Botafogo

An 80s classic with 400 stores. If it rains, your whole afternoon disappears here.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

Featured in: Google Top

VillageMall

Barra da Tijuca

Louis Vuitton, Gucci and company. Rio's luxury lives in Barra.

🚇 Jardim Oceânico — L4 + BRT

Featured in: Google Top

Shopping da Gávea

Gávea

Brazilian designers, theaters and art galleries in a small, cool mall.

🚇 Jardim de Alah — L4 + bus

Featured in: Google Top

Feira Hippie de Ipanema

Praça General Osório

Every Sunday: crafts, paintings, leather and jewelry since 1968.

Tip: Sundays only, 7 am to 7 pm. Haggle away — it's part of the game.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

Featured in: Histórico 1968

SAARA

Centro · 1.300 locales

The Centro's Arab-Jewish labyrinth where you'll find literally anything.

Tip: Closed Sundays. Bring cash and wear your backpack in front — it's an anthill.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

Featured in: Histórico 1960

Feira de Antiguidades Praça XV

Centro · sábados

Vinyl, cameras, watches and old furniture every Saturday facing the bay.

Tip: Saturdays 8 am to 5 pm. Come early if you want the good vinyl.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Praça XV

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Osklen

Ipanema · flagship

Oskar Metsavaht's brand: sophisticated surfwear with an Amazonian conscience.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

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Farm

Ipanema · Visconde de Pirajá

Tropical prints that became the carioca uniform. Impossible to leave empty-handed.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

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Havaianas

Ipanema · flagship

The flagship where you build your own custom flip-flops. The perfect lightweight gift.

Tip: There are models here sold in no other country. Take a look.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

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Granado

Centro · desde 1870

An imperial pharmacy from 1870: soaps, perfumes and gorgeous retro tins.

Tip: The glycerin soaps in tins are the prettiest, cheapest souvenir there is.

🚇 VLT Carioca — Praça XV

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Lenny Niemeyer

Ipanema · Garcia D Avila

Brazil's most elegant swimwear. If you're splurging on a bikini, it's here.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

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Casa Turuna

Centro · desde 1915

A Carnival temple: feathers, sequins, masks and glitter by the kilo.

Tip: Even outside Carnival season, go in: it's a museum that also sells you things.

🚇 Uruguaiana — L1/L2

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Livraria da Travessa

Ipanema

A three-story bookstore with a café upstairs. The perfect refuge when it rains.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

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Shopping Cassino Atlântico

Copacabana · Posto 6

Art galleries and antiques in a half-ghost mall. A hidden gem.

🚇 General Osório — L1/L4

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CADEG

Benfica · mercado

A wholesale market with flowers, cheeses and the best Portuguese lunch in Rio.

Tip: Saturday morning is the day: a packed market, then lunch at Cantinho das Concertinas.

🚇 São Cristóvão — L2 + bus

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Feira do Rio Antigo

Rua do Lavradio · Lapa

On the first Saturday of the month, Lapa fills with antiques, samba and beer.

Tip: First Saturday of each month only. Choro bands on every corner.

🚇 Cinelândia — L1/L2

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H.Stern

Ipanema · joyería

Real Brazilian gemstones and a free workshop tour. Go in even if you're not buying.

Tip: The workshop tour is free and they give you a tiny gemstone as a gift.

🚇 Nossa Senhora da Paz — L4

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Botafogo Praia Shopping

Botafogo

A mall with a Pão de Açúcar view from the top-floor food court.

Tip: Go up to the 7th floor just for the view: the best free one in Botafogo.

🚇 Botafogo — L1/L2

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Rio Design Leblon

Leblon

Décor, Brazilian design and beautiful furniture you won't be able to take home.

🚇 Antero de Quental — L4

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