Mirante Dona Marta
Mid-hillside lookout with a three-hundred-forty-meter panorama of Sugarloaf, the bay, and Christ the Redeemer.
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This guide to Mirante Dona Marta in Rio de Janeiro starts with the panorama the lookout gathers into one frame, then turns to February 1996, when Michael Jackson climbed into the Santa Marta favela just below to film a music video, over a state ban a court soon overturned. It follows the negotiation with the neighborhood's drug traffickers that made the shoot possible, and the scene on the day itself, with fifteen hundred police and fifty local men holding the hillside. Look past the view for the rooftop somewhere below your feet where the filming happened.
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