Vista Chinesa
Pagoda-style pavilion honoring failed Chinese tea plantations, with a panoramic mountain lookout over the bay.
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This guide to Vista Chinesa in Rio de Janeiro traces the Chinese immigrants brought to these slopes in the early 1800s to grow tea and rival Asia's plantations, and how the soil and the abolition of slavery brought the scheme to an end. It follows what the city built on the spot between 1902 and 1906 to remember the workers who climbed here daily, now called one of the largest Chinese-style monuments in Latin America. Look out past the railing at Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf, and the lagoon curling below.
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