Tag: Rio de Janeiro

Investing in Brazil

132 years of Big Business, Big Politics, Big Culture And Power One table in Rio de Janeiro

eyesonbrasil Rio de Janeiro, 1 September 2026–Walk down Rua Gonçalves Dias in downtown Rio de Janeiro and push open the heavy door of the Confeitaria Colombo, and you don’t just step into a pastry shop — you step into a living piece of history. Since it opened on 17 September 1894, founded by two Portuguese…
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Copacabana Real estate

Clogs on the Copacabana

Where Dutch Money Is Flowing in Brazilian Real Estate eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 22, 2026 – Four centuries ago, the Dutch controlled a slice of northeastern Brazil, built forts along its coast, and left behind windmill-dotted towns whose names — Holambra, Carambeí, Castrolanda — still sound more like Friesland than Bahia. That old fascination never really…
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Ouro Preto

Brazil’s Rise

How a Nation of Culture and Color Became the World’s Tourism Comeback Story eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 7, 2026 – There are moments when a country’s story shifts — when the world stops seeing it through old assumptions and starts seeing it as it truly is. For Brazil, that moment is now. Between 2019 and 2025,…
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Porto Maravilha

The Port That Became a Neighborhood

Inside the Real Estate Boom Rewriting Rio’s Port Zone More than a century after Mayor Pereira Passos dreamed of a “Modern Port,” Rio’s old Port Zone is finally becoming a neighborhood — and the real estate market noticed before anyone else did. eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 3, 2026 – For over a hundred years, Rio’s dockside…
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Venezuela-Earthquake

The Unthinkable, or the Unsinkable?

Is Brazil Ready for the Ground to Move eyesonbrasil On the night of June 24, 2026, two earthquakes tore through north-central Venezuela within 39 seconds of each other — magnitude 7.2, then 7.5, the strongest the country had recorded in more than a century. Buildings collapsed in Caracas, Valencia, and Chacao. Thousands were injured, and…
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