Brazilian Art & Culture: São Paulo Tour Package

Day by day

The plan as the operator publishes it. Exact timings are confirmed with your booking.

1. Day 1 São Paulo: Arrival & Panoramic City Tour

   Arrival transfer. A private transfer picks you up at São Paulo airport and takes you to your hotel. Your guide uses the drive to orient you — background on the city, plus the kind of detail only residents have about daily life in São Paulo and the district you'll be staying in.
2. Day 2 São Paulo: A Day Inside Brazilian Art

   São Paulo holds a concentration of world-class museums devoted to Brazilian art, many offering educational tours led by a curator or in-house specialist.
3. Day 3 São Paulo: Street Art in Vila Madalena

   Morning: Urban Art Tour. São Paulo's street art scene is among the most prolific anywhere, and Vila Madalena is its heart. Beyond the artistic interventions covering the streets themselves, the neighborhood is dense with galleries where those same artists show finished work.
4. Day 4 São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro: The Artists of Santa Teresa

   Departure transfer. Private transfer from your hotel to Congonhas airport, with guide assistance at check-in. Arrival in Rio. Your uniformed bilingual guide meets you just past the restricted baggage claim area for the private transfer to your hotel, sharing stories, curiosities and general…
5. Day 5 Rio de Janeiro: Two Centuries of Brazilian Art

   As the country's capital for more than two hundred years, Rio was the center of Brazilian artistic life. It started with religious art in the churches and convents; then the Portuguese Royal Family arrived, and European artists were invited to depict the land for other royal courts — the moment…
6. Day 6 Rio's Outskirts: Burle Marx, Prainha & Popular Art

   Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. On the edge of the city stands the house museum of Brazil's most renowned landscape architect and artist. The complex holds a colonial house and chapel, extraordinary tropical gardens, a greenhouse and a modernist living area.
7. Day 7 Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte: Graffiti Tour & Workshop

   Morning: Graffiti tour and workshop with an artist. Rio is fertile ground for street artists — the city went as far as passing a law encouraging local grafiteiros to occupy public space with their work.
8. Day 8 Brumadinho: Inhotim Contemporary Art Center

   Inhotim, with lunch. Seventy kilometers from Belo Horizonte, in the municipality of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, Inhotim spreads across 87 acres of gardens — part of them designed by Roberto Burle Marx — with art displayed both indoors and out.
9. Day 9 Inhotim to Ouro Preto via Congonhas & Itatiaia

   Congonhas. Leaving Brumadinho in the morning, you travel to Congonhas, a town holding important works from Brazil's Golden Age. The high point is Aleijadinho's sculptural masterwork — the Twelve Prophets, carved in soapstone — together with his Via Crucis, the Stations of the Cross, rendered in…
10. Day 10 Ouro Preto: Birthplace of Brazilian Baroque

    Morning: Walking city tour. Brazilian baroque was born here, and Ouro Preto's churches hold one of the country's most valuable collections of religious art.
11. Day 11 Ouro Preto to Salvador: Pelourinho on Foot

    Transfer to Belo Horizonte airport. The guided drive back doubles as a chance to take in the mountain landscape of Minas Gerais. Arrival in Salvador. An English-speaking guide meets you on arrival and transfers you to your hotel.
12. Day 12 Salvador: African Heritage & the Bahia of Amado, Carybé and Verger

    African-oriented tour. You'll visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary — the celebrated Black church, built with scarce means over nearly a century — and Casa do Benin, which exists to strengthen the ties between Bahia and West African nations through cultural exchange.
13. Day 13 Praia do Forte & the Coconut Coast

    Your last full day in Bahia is given to the coast. The scenic Coconut Highway runs north to Praia do Forte, a fishing village 80km from Salvador with some of the finest beaches in the state. As you continue north, the sparse restinga vegetation and its distinctive white sand signals you're close.
14. Day 14 Departure from Salvador

    Transfer to the airport for your connecting flight home, with your guide assisting through check-in.