“…Italian GQ even places it second in its list of the 100 top restaurants of the world.”
Set amongst abandoned factories in a squalid area of the capital, a derelict printing plant had been transformed into a cosmopolitan and sophisticated restaurant, serving nouvelle cuisine, almost unheard of in the country back then. Seventeen years have passed [...]

This Renaissance palace, built in 1523, derives its name from the unusual points on its facade. It was once a used to refine diamonds hence the diamond shaped points. The ground floor is host to periodic exhibitions.

Standing 125 feet (38 meters) tall, Rio’s “Christ the Redeemer” statue was inaugurated in 1931 at the summit of Corcovado mountain in Tijuca National Park. Voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Cog trains to the statue depart every 30 minutes from Rua Cosme Velho 513;

In Chinatown, upstairs in a converted school building. Historical photographs, ephemera like old Chinese restaurant menus, and, sometimes, “the local senior citizens group practicing Chinese opera music next door.”—Daisann McLane.

Even thought the weather in Edinburgh might make you think twice before going to the beach, the Portobello beach is only a few miles away from city center, and on a good blue sky day it can be very refreshing to get away from it all.