Rio Impressions

This city is simply incredible. Impressive colonial buildings, such as the theater, library, or churches, seem pressed between modern skyscrapers. Spacious, ultra-modern areas, like the naval port with the adjacent futuristic Museum of Tomorrow, built for the 2016 Olympics, transition into morbid neighborhoods that would look completely desolate without the imaginative graffiti. Chic coffee houses here, shabby entrances there. Excess and bitter poverty constantly change the street scene. Rio de Janeiro is often called the most beautiful city in the world. This might be true for its dreamlike location between the sea and picturesque hills, for its bays and beaches, and the magnificent views from Sugarloaf Mountain and Corcovado. Other areas of the city probably don't deserve this distinction. However, Rio is certainly exciting, lively, colorful, diverse, and worth a visit.