{"id":11432,"date":"2016-09-22T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2020-05-25T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:36:29","slug":"corcovado-christo-redentor-and-centro-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"Corcovado, Christo Redentor, and Centro, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday – \u00a0September 22, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

The sky continued to clear giving us a pleasant spring morning in Rio de Janeiro. \u00a0It was a perfect day to visit\u00a0the enormous\u00a0statue of Christ the Redeemer located on top of Corcovado<\/em> Mountain.<\/p>\n

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Access to the summit is via a delightful cog railway ride through the Parque Nacional da Tijuca<\/em>. \u00a0The forest is one of the world’s largest urban tropical rainforests.<\/p>\n

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It took 20 minutes to climb to the 2,300 foot granite peak of Corcovado<\/em>, which means “hunchback”<\/em> in Portuguese, for magnificent views of the city of Rio.<\/p>\n

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As several parakites soared above\u00a0the statue, Linda and I marveled at the impressive concrete Cristo Redentor<\/em> along with hundreds of other tourists.<\/p>\n

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Finished in 1931, the statue stands 98 feet tall on top of a 26 ft. pedestal. \u00a0It was created by French sculptor, Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer, Heitor da Silva Costa. Many tourists tired to take selfies with the statue!<\/p>\n

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We ate lunch on the terrace under brilliant sunshine with a fabulous view of the city.<\/p>\n

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After a while, we rode the electric Corcovado<\/em> railway back down the mountain through the tropical rainforest.<\/p>\n

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We took a taxi to the center of the city to see Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Candelaria<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Construction of the Baroque-style Candelaria Church began in 1775. \u00a0In\u00a01877 it was the tallest building in Rio, but today the church is surrounded by tall modern office buildings which comprise the\u00a0financial district, Centro.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We walked toward the area\u00a0which was\u00a0the ‘2016 Olympic Village’ last month, then we\u00a0explored the outdoor exhibits of the Naval and Oceanographic Museum.<\/p>\n

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We discovered\u00a0the former bank building, the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil<\/em> which is now a museum and cultural center.<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed a\u00a0free exhibit, ‘The Triumph of Color,’ which included several paintings on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. \u00a0What fun to see Van Gogh, Matisse, and Gauguin in Rio de Janeiro!<\/p>\n

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We walked through the financial Centro<\/em> district with narrow streets and tall buildings which reminded me of the Wall Street neighborhood in lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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We passed the famous Confeitaria Colombo<\/em>. There were two long lines of people waiting to get in. \u00a0The Belle Epoque pastry shop was opened in 1894 and is the oldest restaurant in Rio still located in its original building.<\/p>\n

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Thursday – \u00a0September 22, 2016 The sky continued to clear giving us a pleasant spring morning in Rio de Janeiro. \u00a0It was a perfect day to visit\u00a0the enormous\u00a0statue of Christ the Redeemer located on top of Corcovado Mountain. Access to the summit is via a delightful cog railway ride through the Parque Nacional da Tijuca. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}