Rio de Janeiro Trip Overview
During this half-day tour, you will get to visit the amazing Sítio Roberto Burle Marx with a guide that has twenty years of experience and that worked at Roberto Burle Marx’s State for eight years and admire his work a lot. Together, we will explore the estate at your own pace, visit the Burle Marx House museum, and admire the vast botanical gardens, which include over 3,500 species of tropical and subtropical plants from all around the world.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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During this half-day tour, you will get to visit the amazing Sítio Roberto Burle Marx with a guide that has twenty years of experience and that worked at Roberto Burle Marx’s State for eight years and admire his work a lot. Together, we will explore the estate at your own pace, visit the Burle Marx House museum, and admire the vast botanical gardens, which include over 3,500 species of tropical and subtropical plants from all around the world.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Sitio Roberto Burle Marx, Estrada De Guaratiba 2019 Barra De Guaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro 23020-240 Brazil
After the pickup, we’ll drive to Barra de Guaratiba district, which is on the west side of the city, where the “Sítio Roberto Burle Marx” is.
We’ll enjoy the landscape on the way there and the view of the coast with its beautiful beaches. Once we arrive at Roberto Burle Marx’s Estate, I will guide you through its gardens and we’ll visit his former house that is a museum nowadays, his studio, and a chapel from the seventeenth century that is inside the property.
Roberto Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect, who created the tropical modern garden in Brazil. He was considered one of the greatest landscape designers of the twentieth century. He donated his property to the federal government in 1985, nine years before he passed away. It has a huge collection of plants (3.500 species) from Brazil and some other countries from Asia and Africa as well.
Duration: 5 hours
