The Lage Park provides an unforgettable Rio de Janeiro charming experience



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  Tangol 12/07/2018

If you like nature and you are in Rio de Janeiro, you should visit the delicious Parque Lage, a place adored by the Cariocas themselves. At the Tijuca Forest and very close to the Botanical Garden, this orchard has English-style garden, small lakes and a beautiful mansion that now houses the School of Visual Arts and where you can see free art exhibitions and performances.  It is a relaxed place, ideal to have a coffee and observe the landscape. If you're lucky you'll see even monkeys and toucans frisking and feeding quietly among the foliage.

As part of the Tijuca National Park, better known as the Tijuca Forest, the Lage is a beautiful European-style park nestled at the foot of Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado, which is full of hidden surprises. Its 52 hectares of beautiful gardens around a "Roman Palace" have their origin in a story of love and art.

The zone that today corresponds to the Lage Park was part during  colonial era of what was known as the Engenho Del Rey, huge sugarcane cultivation lands on the banks of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. Owned by Rodrigo de Freitas Mello during the seventeenth century. In 1840 the English landscape architect John Tyndale designed the first romantic garden inspired by the European villas of the time.

In 1920, the entrepreneur and lover of the arts, Henrique Lage acquires the park and to please his wife, the Italian lyric singer Gabriela Besanzoni, orders to build in the interior, an exact replica of a Roman Palace and reformulates the landscape design of the gardens. The palace became the residence of the couple, and there were great parties and artistic presentations.

The visit to Lage Park in Rio de Janeiro and its palace is a walk that is well worth it, especially for nature lovers, as well as a great variety of plants and typical trees of the Atlantic Forest,  The Lage Park is one of the places least visited by tourists, however it is a jewel where you can stroll peacefully and enjoy outside the great tourist circuits of Rio. A perfect place also to go with children, who will have fun moments exploring the caves and hidden corners of the park.

From the beginning, the entrance surprises with its road flanked by tall imperial palm trees that lead to the palace. The building was designed by the Italian architect Mario Vodrel, in an eclectic style and consists of a single rectangular floor plan with a huge frontal portico and large arches and columns, where all the rooms and rooms revolve around a central pool, in the same way of the Roman mansions. The part of the garden located just in front of the palace has a French style, with geometric shapes, where the open areas covered with grass predominate.

But what characterizes the Lage Park of Rio de Janeiro is its exuberant vegetation and the enormous trees that make it a kind of "enchanted forest", where unhurried wandering is the best alternative. The staging is perfect, sinuous paths that go into the vegetation, bridges, lagoons, islands, viewpoints made of rock and even caves and artificial caves, all created to give the park the charm of English romantic gardens.

Quite a surprise is the aquarium embedded in the walls of one of these artificial caves, where you can see several Kinds of fish, mainly native species of Brazilian rivers.

For lovers of hiking and long walks, from Lage Park a route of moderate difficulty that goes almost to the top of Corcovado. It is recommended to do it only if you are in good physical shape and always provided with sufficient water.








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