With New Ferris Wheel, Rio Gets a New Angle to See City

Ferris Wheel to be inaugurated this Friday
Dec.4.2019 12:48PM

Júlia Barbon
RIO DE JANEIRO
Rio de Janeiro will add another element to its already stunning postcard image this Friday (6) when it inaugurates the largest giant wheel in Latin America. It will be like climbing a 25-story building, only in (slow) motion.

From above, the attraction promises another perspective of the city's sights. On one side, downtown with Morro da Providência and, in the background, Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf. On the other, the Museum of Tomorrow, Guanabara Bay and the Rio-Niterói bridge.

If the sky is very clear, you can still see the Serra dos Órgãos and its peak Dedo de Deus, almost 70 km away, in Teresópolis.



The ferris wheel (Foto: Zo Guimaraes/Folhapress, Cotidiano )

One of Rio Star's challenges will be to bring visitors to a still undeveloped part of the port area compared to other Rio attractions - the very end of Porto Maravilha, revitalized for the 2016 Olympics.

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