
Arco do Teles and Travessa do Comércio
Local name: Arco do Teles / Travessa do Comércio
The surviving passage will become evidence of an attempt to destroy the city’s rights along with its archive.
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Highlights include Arco do Teles and Travessa do Comércio, Candelária Church, Carioca Aqueduct (Lapa Arches), Cinelândia and Theatro Municipal, Confeitaria Colombo, Escadaria Selarón.
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Local name: Arco do Teles / Travessa do Comércio
The surviving passage will become evidence of an attempt to destroy the city’s rights along with its archive.
The surviving passage will become evidence of an attempt to destroy the city’s rights along with its archive.
Here, a legend of a maritime vow meets a dispute over ownership that lasted for generations.
Here the story of the climb up the hill begins, and the first change in the purpose of an urban structure becomes visible.
The finale will compare the district of mass cinema with the theater that did not fulfill its original promise.
The confectionery will show how tolerance for a not-very-prosperous group turned into publicity for the city.
This stop will show how one person's work became a city street and a protected work.
The square links a vanished water source, a newspaper stunt, and a city refrain.
This stop will bring the vanished shoreline back to the neighborhood and show the cost of defending Rio de Janeiro in 1710.
Here, the tram's story will shift from the convenience of the climb to the cost of a technical error and a long restoration.
The final stop brings together the road, the tram, and the estate divided into plots.
It will trace the former shoreline and explain why the first railway journey began where there were no rails.
This stop will explain how the collector prepared his house in advance for its transformation into a museum.
The pier makes it possible to trace how an underused port platform was turned into a museum without a ready-made answer about the future.
This stop will show how a city petition changed the position of a prince and the palace itself.
Here, a private salon will link music from the beginning of the last century with a contemporary cultural space.
Here port labor and courtyard processions come together in the prehistory of samba schools.
Here, the old shoreline will connect the city water system, the port, and the labor of water carriers.
The finale brings the port's larger history inside a house where an ordinary renovation was halted by a discovery beneath the floor.
A municipal collection, not envisioned in the museum's original plan, will appear here.
This stop explains how a difference in wealth divided the worshippers of a single image.
The garden will explain where the decoration from the disappearing wharf was moved during the redevelopment of the port district.
The excavated site reveals two versions of the shoreline, laid one above the other.
Nearest audio-route stop: Confeitaria Colombo — 130 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Confeitaria Colombo — 90 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Candelária Church — 120 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Escadaria Selarón — 110 m in a straight line, route Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua do Ouvidor and Church of Our Lady of Lapa of the Merchants — 80 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo da Carioca and Rua da Carioca — 150 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo de São Francisco da Prainha — 60 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Paço Imperial — 140 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua do Ouvidor and Church of Our Lady of Lapa of the Merchants — 40 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua do Ouvidor and Church of Our Lady of Lapa of the Merchants — 100 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Cinelândia and Theatro Municipal — 110 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Pretos Novos Cemetery — 10 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo de São Francisco da Prainha — 10 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Parque Glória Maria — 10 m in a straight line, route Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill
Nearest audio-route stop: Museum of Tomorrow — 10 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Paço Imperial — 40 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua do Ouvidor and Church of Our Lady of Lapa of the Merchants — 120 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Paço Imperial — 120 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Pretos Novos Cemetery — 140 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Valongo Hanging Garden — 80 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Mauá Square — 60 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Paço Imperial — 100 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo da Carioca and Rua da Carioca — 140 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Rio Art Museum (MAR) — 30 m in a straight line, route Little Africa and Port Rio
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo da Carioca and Rua da Carioca — 10 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Nearest audio-route stop: Carioca Aqueduct (Lapa Arches) — 30 m in a straight line, route Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill
Nearest audio-route stop: Paço Imperial — 90 m in a straight line, route Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic
Access and construction years come from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, snapshot of August 25, 2026: database data, not a check on the ground.