Cidade Nova – RioOnWatch

Counter-Narratives at the Heart of Afro-Brazilian Culture: 14th Urban Peripheries Literary Festival Celebrates Beatriz Nascimento

By Carol Marinho • Translation by Staff • June 6, 2024

Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP) kicked off its 14th edition on Saturday, May 11 with an event held at Circo Crescer e Viver, in the area now known […]

Amid the Pandemic, Families Evicted for World Cup Suffer New Evictions Due to Suspension of Social Rent Payments

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. Approximately 20 people are camped out in front of the municipal government building in Cidade Nova, in the Central […]

Rio at a Crossroads: Cidade Nova and the ‘Porous City’ [BOOK REVIEW]

By Tom Winterbottom • December 6, 2013

Rio’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência, lies just 2km from Cidade Nova, known today mostly as the location of Rio’s City Hall. Soldiers returning in 1897 from the Canudos war in Brazil’s Northeastern state of […]