Mirante do Leblon

This guide to Mirante do Leblon in Rio de Janeiro traces the clifftop lookout's changing crowds, from the coded phrase teenage couples used for parking here to a nineteenth-century fishing point beside an unfinished railway, then grandstand seating for the city's automobile Grand Prix in the 1930s. It follows who claimed this rail over the decades, from courting couples to taxi drivers and off-duty musicians. Take in the view toward Ipanema and Dois Irmãos as you listen.