Teresopolis, Brazil Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

While TERESÓPOLIS can be reached directly from Rio by bus, the best route is from Petrópolis. It’s not a long journey, no more than 40km, but the road to this highest town in the state (872m) passes through the Serra dos Órgãos , much of which is a national park – dramatic rock formations here resemble rows of organ pipes (hence the range’s name), dominated by the towering Dedo de Deus (“God’s Finger”) peak. Teresópolis, like Petrópolis, owed its initial development to the opening of a road between Minas Gerais and Rio during the eighteenth … more »