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Flamengo (Rio de Janeiro)

Brazil / Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro
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Flamengo is the name of a neighborhood (bairro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It is the Portuguese word for Flemish, and it was given to the nearby beach (Praia do Flamengo, Beach of the Flemish) because it is believed that a Belgian owned the lands in colonial times. It is located between the Centro (city centre) and Botafogo districts on the edge of Guanabara Bay. The beachfront area is dominated by the "Parque do Flamengo" park, built by Lota de Macedo Soares on nearly 300 acres (1.2 km²) of land reclaimed from the bay and completed in 1960. The park features gardens designed by well-known Brazilian landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx.

The district is serviced by one metro station, Flamengo, and many bus lines that link it to the rest of the city. It is fairly close to the city centre and offers excellent views of Pão de Açúcar (Sugarloaf Mountain) and the statue of Christ the Redeemer. Home to many embassies and art-decó buildings, nowadays it is mostly a middle-class residential neighborhood.

Its main streets are Senador Vergueiro, Marquês de Abrantes and Paissandu, in addition to the express ways of the Aterro of Flamengo, that links the southern zone to the centre of the city.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamengo
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Coordinates:   22°55'56"S   43°10'31"W

Comments

  • MarcusAgrippa (guest)
    Flamengo can give you a good idea of the "carioca" way-of-life. The neighborhood has residencial and comercial buildings, good transport services (metro, bus, taxi), touristic points of interest and a beach! You will see people on the streets going to work, shopping, taking children to/from school or chating at the bar while drinking a beer. Very different from modern "bairros" like Barra da Tijuca, where people need cars and meet/eat/live in Malls. In Flamengo you will be close to the mains touristic point and hotels are less expensive than Copacabana and Ipanema.
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