Little Africa Heritage Walk

The Etnias mural is a five-hundred-sixty-foot-long spray-painted wall featuring five massive, brightly colored indigenous faces. Created by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra for the twenty-sixteen Summer Olympics, the mural stretches fifteen…

The Largo de São Francisco da Prainha is defined by its cobblestone ground and the surrounding colorful colonial buildings that sit at the foot of Morro da Conceição. Before the Porto do Rio de Janeiro was built in the early twentieth…

Pedra do Sal is identified by a steep, massive stone slab cut into the base of Conceição Hill. Once sitting directly by the sea, this rock served as a landing point for salt shipments in the seventeenth century. Enslaved Africans were…

Praça dos Estivadores features a modern, open layout that serves as a quiet landmark within the bustling Centro district. It carries a layered history, beginning in the eighteenth century as the Largo do Depósito, a site where merchants…

The Hanging Garden of Valongo rises seven meters above street level on the western slope of the Morro da Conceição. Opened in nineteen oh six, the garden was designed by landscaper Luis Rey as part of an urban renovation project led by…

The Cais do Valongo is identified by its exposed, uneven cobblestone paving, which sits in a sunken area near the port. Built in eighteen eleven, this wharf served as the primary arrival point for hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans…

The Institute of Research and New Black Memory, known locally as the IPN, occupies a residence on Rua Pedro Ernesto where, in nineteen ninety-six, a couple renovating their home discovered thousands of human bone fragments beneath the…

The Museu da História e da Cultura Afro-Brasileira sits inside the historic building of the former Colégio José Bonifácio, a site originally constructed in the late nineteenth century by order of Emperor Dom Pedro the Second. Located on…