Santa Teresa Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text A few weeks ago we went to Santa Teresa - one of Rio's few hill-side neighborhoods that isn't a favela. There is a little tram (_bondinho_) that starts from behind the Petrobras building downtown (metro Carioca) that goes up the hill to Santa Teresa. The tram is clean but seems to have some serious problems with the engine and in many cases we were wondering if we would get stuck. It costs close to nothing (R$0.50) so no wonder they don't have enough money to restore it. <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_003_7447 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_012_2436 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_014_6790 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_027_0229 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_042_6786 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_065_4300 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_038_4789 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_049_8126 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_058_2166 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_072_5023 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Santa Teresa is very different from other parts of Rio, somewhat reminiscent of San Francisco. It offers beautiful views of downtown Rio and some white-washed favelas. Santa Teresa itself is a liminal zone - once prosperous it has been undergoing graduate de-gentrification. It is currently known as the artists' neighborhood, though we didn't see any. What we did see is policemen warning us about which streets we shouldn't go into. At the top of Santa Teresa there is a museum called "Chácara do Céu" ("Sky Cottage") which has views on three sides of the hill and contains a Monet and some other French artists. <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_074_9638 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_079_9347 2005-10-09-santa-teresa/20051009_085_5827 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> From Chácara do Céu we walked down to Lapa at the bottom of the hill. We were trying to keep track of the quality of cars parked on the street and the amount of graffiti to gauge our chances of getting robbed. For a while it was good, but then we started getting a bit worried. We were almost all the way down at the bottom of the hill, and right at the time when we started to think seriously about turning around we saw the arcs of Lapa just a block away. So, we got to Lapa safe, after all. (Last week we were [less lucky](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2005/10/26/robbed).) Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
