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Explore two of Rio's most photogenic green spaces with a photographer-guide.
Visit the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and the romantic grounds of Parque Lage with a photographer-guide who knows the best photo spots and angles at each.
Avoid leaving Rio with only phone snapshots. This private photography tour checks off two ecological attractions in one outing — first the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden's historic grounds and research collections, then Parque Lage's forested trails and artificial grottoes, framed at Rio's best photo spots.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Pickup from your Rio de Janeiro hotel.
Explore over 6,500 species across historic gardens established in 1808.
Wander the romantic mansion grounds, ponds, and grotto at the foot of Corcovado.
Your guide leads you to the best photo spots and angles at each location.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Visit the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden and the romantic grounds of Parque Lage with a photographer-guide who knows the best photo spots and angles at each. Avoid leaving Rio with only phone snapshots. This private photography tour checks off two ecological attractions in one outing — first the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden's historic grounds and research collections, then Parque Lage's forested trails and artificial grottoes, framed at Rio's best photo spots.
The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden was founded on June 13, 1808, on the personal order of the Portuguese prince regent Dom João VI, who had just relocated the entire Portuguese court to Brazil. Its original purpose had little to do with beauty: it was set up as an acclimatization garden where spices the crown wanted to grow locally — nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon, and tea among them — could be tested under tropical conditions, breaking Portugal's dependence on imports from the East Indies. The garden wasn't opened to the public until 1822, and it's now the oldest botanical garden still operating in Latin America, spread across roughly 54 hectares and holding the region's largest herbarium alongside some 6,500 cataloged plant species.
The garden's most photographed feature is its entrance avenue of imperial palms, planted when the garden was first laid out and now towering well over the walkway below — the kind of single, simple composition that photographers return to again and again for the scale and symmetry alone.
Parque Lage sits at the opposite end of the day's route, directly at the foot of Corcovado, and has a very different, more romantic history. The land was bought in the early 1830s by Antônio Martins Lage, whose rustic landscape garden and elaborate artificial grotto — designed around 1840 by the Englishman John Tyndale, with a second chamber built to hold a dozen aquarium tanks — still forms the park's backbone today. The estate's best-known chapter came in the early 20th century, when industrialist Henrique Lage and his wife, the opera singer Gabriella Besanzoni, made it their home and had the mansion remodeled in the 1920s by Italian architect Mario Vodret. It became a public park in the 1960s and was formally protected as a heritage site in 1957. The mansion itself now houses EAV Parque Lage, a well-regarded visual arts school founded in 1975 by artist Rubens Gerchman, with a café in the old entrance hall that's open to anyone just passing through.
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