Secret Rio Guide: Discover 150 unusual and unfamiliar places that will take you off the beaten track to discover hidden Rio (Jonglez Secret Guides) - Softcover

Manoel De Almeida E Silva; Marcio Roiter; Thomas Jonglez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2361958449 ISBN 13: 9782361958442

Publisher: Jonglez Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

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Let Secret Rio guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Rio travel guide book and let our local experts show you over 150 well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. 

• Visit an extraordinary hill where the 'little angels' are buried
• Discover remarkable forgotten Art Deco buildings
• See a plane taking off at really close range
• Experience leftovers from the 1908 and 1922 Universal Expositions
• View a beautiful private palace open to visitors once a month
• Marvel at modernist ceramics hidden on the 15th-floor terrace of a former government building
• Explore little-known walks and views of the city
• Find an Amazonian talisman at Copacabana
• Uncover vestiges of the Carioca river
• Photograph a rare statue of the great-grandmother of Jesus
• Enjoy a taxi nightclub, a work of art in a favela, a disused airship hangar...

Far from the crowds and the usual beach and carnival clichés, Rio de Janeiro has countless treasures it reveals only to residents and travellers who wander off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for all those who thought they were familiar with Rio or would like to discover the other face of the city.

The definitive insider’s guide to Rio.

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About this title

About the Author

After spending a few months in the German capital in 1994 and being blown away by 'alternative' Berlin after the fall of the Wall, Thomas Jonglez took a few detours: seven months of back- packing in Latin America, seven months of driving from Beijing to Paris without ever taking a plane, six months with his family between Venice and Rio de Janeiro and across Siberia and the Pacific, three years in Brussels, three years in Paris, seven years in Venice and seven years in Rio de Janeiro ... Returning to the loves of his youth, Thomas moved back to Berlin in 2019. What he found is a city that's obviously less alternative than it was in the 1990s but still has a particular charm and energy, to which he has paid tribute by publishing, among many other books, the Secret Berlin guide. On his return, he spent two fantastic years wandering the streets of the capital to gather material for his first "secret guide", written with a friend. For the next seven years he worked in the steel industry until the passion for discovery overtook him. He launched Jonglez Publishing in 2005 and moved to Venice one year later. In 2012, he set off on a six-month family trip: by train from Venice to Pyongyang (North Korea) via Paris, Moscow and Beijing. Next he travelled through Japan, Micronesia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tahiti, Easter Island, Peru and Bolivia before arriving in Rio de Janeiro, where he spent seven years. He returned to Europe in 2019 and rediscovered the charms of the old continent and his hometown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonglez Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2361958449
• ISBN 13: 9782361958442
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320