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2 unusual facts about Guanabara Bay


Brazil Red

The plot of this veritable epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed.

Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro

When the Carmelite Order arrived in Rio in 1590, they settled in a small chapel near Guanabara Bay.


Greater Rio de Janeiro

Paquetá Island (NOTE: The Paquetá Island, or Ilha de Paquetá in Portuguese, is not a municipality like the others, but an island in Guanabara Bay, part of the metropolitan area): 4,500


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Colégio de São Bento

Colégio de São Bento is managed by Benedictine monks, since the school was founded in 1858 on the hills overlooking Rio de Janeiro's harbor and the Guanabara Bay, adjacent to the Benedictine Monastery of Rio de Janeiro.