Rio de Janeiro Little Africa Walking Tour - World Heritage Site

Rio de Janeiro Little Africa Walking Tour - World Heritage Site

Recognition, justice and development.
The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent.

The Little African tour It is a tribute to the African Brazilian memories, history, culture, gastronomy, samba, carnival, food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.

At Little Africa (Pequena Africa), the cradle of Samba and Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, you will be visiting sites related to the slavery traffic and post-abolition.

Itinerary:

Valongo Wharf Archaeological World Heritage Site
Warehouse docks Pedro II / Docas André Rebouças
IPN – A Memorial to the newly arrived African enslaved in Rio
MUHCAB – Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Pedra do Sal (Rock of Salt)
Morro da Conceição
Mercedes Baptista Statue
Largo da Prainha

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Stop At: Instituto de Pesquisa e Memoria Pretos Novos - IPN, Rua Pedro Ernesto 36, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro 20220-350 Brazil

The Archaeological Site Institute of New Blacks - It is a Memorial Museum located on the Archaeological Site of the New Blacks Cemetery, in the Port Zone of Rio. It is an old slave cemetery, which functioned between the last decades of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century, where the newly landed Africans, called the New Blacks were buried. Its importance is unique because it was one of the rare cemeteries that essentially housed Africans. Since 2005, the IPN has endeavored to publicize the memory of the cemetery and those buried there, as well as the history of the enslaved and their descendants in the locality. It is for this purpose that it regularly promotes Afro-Brazilian cultural activities and offers wide audience workshops on the history and culture of African descent and the port region. The seriousness of its work has led to recognition by the State, which has made it a Culture Place since 2009. More recently, other archaeological sites have been found at the site: a "contact site" between Tupinambás Indians and Europeans, possibly in the 17th century, and a sambaqui, where indigenous Neolithic hunter-gatherers were buried. These findings led to the need for inclusion of workshops on indigenous history and culture. The Port Zone is a region open to the future, thanks to the revitalization project, but it has an important historical dimension that cannot be forgotten. In the last decades of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the locality acted as an important complex related to slavery. During this period, Rio de Janeiro was the most important landing port for Africans from Brazil and the world. Some hundreds of thousands of captives passed through Valongo Quay, and, depending on their luck, were buried in the New Black Cemetery or sold in the slave market of Rua do Valongo. With the end of slavery, the region attracted a huge number of blacks from all over the country and became known as the Brazilian Little Africa. Its streets and squares were the scene of important cultural and religious manifestations: samba wheels, carnival ranches, cults of African origin and capoeira. The region also harbored well-known popular uprisings such as Chibata and Vacina.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil

One of my most wanted itineraries, Little African Tour, visiting sites related to the slavery traffic and post-abolition in Rio and Brazil - The UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent: Recognition, justice and development.

The Little African tour has the African Brazilian history, culture and gastronomic reference: Samba, carnival, food, music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil.

Itinarary:
Valongo Wharf Archaeological World Heritage Site
Warehouse docks Pedro II / Docas André Rebouças
IPN – A Memorial to the newly arrived African “enslaved”
MUHCAB – Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira
Pedra do Sal (Rock of Salt)
Morro da Conceição
Mercedes Baptista Statue
Largo da Prainha


Duration: 3 hours