Little Africa Tour - A Walking Tour through the port region of Rio de Janeiro

Itinerary
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Stop At: Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Over four million Africans were brought to Brazil to be enslaved along the 300-year period of slavery in the country. Brazil was the last country to abolish the slavery economic system, in 1888.

The city of Rio was the world’s largest African slave market in the Nineteenth Century. One out of five enslaved of the modern era in the wold step in into Rio.

Samba, carnival, food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.

This tour covers the impact of the African diaspora through a route in the port region of Rio.

In the Little Africa Tour, we will be visiting sites related to the slavery traffic and post-abolition in Rio, Brazil.

Stop At: Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil

One of my most wanted itineraries, Little African Tour, visiting sites related to the slavery traffic and post-abolition in Rio and Brazil - The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent: Recognition, justice and development.

The Little African tour has the African Brazilian history, culture and gastronomic reference: Samba, carnival, food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.

Itinarary:
Valongo Wharf Archaeological World Heritage Site
Warehouse docks Pedro II / Docas André Rebouças
IPN – A Memorial to the newly arrived African “enslaved”
MUHCAB – Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Pedra do Sal (Rock of Salt)
Morro da Conceição
Mercedes Baptista Statue
Largo da Prainha


Duration: 4 hours