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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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  1. Arco do Teles and Travessa do Comércio: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    The surviving passage will become evidence of an attempt to destroy the city’s rights along with its archive.

  2. Candelária Church: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    Here, a legend of a maritime vow meets a dispute over ownership that lasted for generations.

  3. Carioca Aqueduct (Lapa Arches): story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    Here the story of the climb up the hill begins, and the first change in the purpose of an urban structure becomes visible.

  4. Cinelândia and Theatro Municipal: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    The finale will compare the district of mass cinema with the theater that did not fulfill its original promise.

  5. Confeitaria Colombo: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    The confectionery will show how tolerance for a not-very-prosperous group turned into publicity for the city.

  6. Escadaria Selarón: story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    This stop will show how one person's work became a city street and a protected work.

  7. Largo da Carioca and Rua da Carioca: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    The square links a vanished water source, a newspaper stunt, and a city refrain.

  8. Largo de São Francisco da Prainha: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    This stop will bring the vanished shoreline back to the neighborhood and show the cost of defending Rio de Janeiro in 1710.

  9. Largo do Curvelo: story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    Here, the tram's story will shift from the convenience of the climb to the cost of a technical error and a long restoration.

  10. Largo dos Guimarães: story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    The final stop brings together the road, the tram, and the estate divided into plots.

  11. Mauá Square: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    It will trace the former shoreline and explain why the first railway journey began where there were no rails.

  12. Museu da Chácara do Céu: story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    This stop will explain how the collector prepared his house in advance for its transformation into a museum.

  13. Museum of Tomorrow: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    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.

  14. Paço Imperial: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    This stop will show how a city petition changed the position of a prince and the palace itself.

  15. Parque Glória Maria: story on the “Lapa and Santa Teresa: The Road Uphill” route

    Here, a private salon will link music from the beginning of the last century with a contemporary cultural space.

  16. Pedra do Sal: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    Here port labor and courtyard processions come together in the prehistory of samba schools.

  17. Praça XV and Mestre Valentim Fountain: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    Here, the old shoreline will connect the city water system, the port, and the labor of water carriers.

  18. Pretos Novos Cemetery: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    The finale brings the port's larger history inside a house where an ordinary renovation was halted by a discovery beneath the floor.

  19. Rio Art Museum (MAR): story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    A municipal collection, not envisioned in the museum's original plan, will appear here.

  20. Rua do Ouvidor and Church of Our Lady of Lapa of the Merchants: story on the “Old Rio Center: Empire, Trade, and Republic” route

    This stop explains how a difference in wealth divided the worshippers of a single image.

  21. Valongo Hanging Garden: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    The garden will explain where the decoration from the disappearing wharf was moved during the redevelopment of the port district.

  22. Valongo Wharf: story on the “Little Africa and Port Rio” route

    The excavated site reveals two versions of the shoreline, laid one above the other.