Belford Roxo works well as a base: 10 minutes from Nilópolis, 27km from Rio-Niterói Bridge.
Belford Roxo is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with about 470,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Nilópolis, about 5 km away.
Belford Roxo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɛwfɔʁ ˈʁoʃu]) is a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a part of the metropolitan region of the city of Rio de Janeiro and was created in 1990.
Within an hour or so of Belford Roxo: Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet (24 km), Rio-Niterói Bridge (27 km), Museu do Amanhã (27 km), Confeitaria Colombo (27 km).
Where is Belford Roxo?
Belford Roxo is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about 5 km from Nilópolis.
Road trip
Drive to Belford Roxo
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
The Jacarepaguá circuit in Rio that hosted ten Brazilian Grands Prix and where Ayrton Senna raced. Largely demolished for the 2016 Olympic Park, but its motorsport significance and location remain a landmark.
24 km · about 25 min drive
bridge
Rio-Niterói Bridge
13 km box-girder giant striding across Guanabara Bay: the longest bridge in the Southern Hemisphere at its opening in 1974, with sweeping views of Rio's skyline.
27 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Museu do Amanhã
Science museum by Santiago Calatrava on Rio's revitalised Praça Mauá waterfront, adjacent to the port district drive.
27 km · about 30 min drive
cafe
Confeitaria Colombo
An 1894 Rio patisserie of Belgian mirrors, Portuguese tiles and jacaranda cabinets, built when the city was flush with coffee money and still serving pastel de nata under a vast stained-glass skylight.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Christ the Redeemer
Towering 30-metre Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ atop Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
28 km · about 35 min drive
tunnel
Rebouças Tunnel
Twin-bore road tunnel under the Tijuca massif linking Rio's South Zone to the North Zone, about 2.8 kilometres long.
28 km · about 35 min drive
photogenic
Escadaria Selaron
A staircase between Lapa and Santa Teresa covered by Chilean artist Jorge Selaron in over 2,000 tiles sent from 60 countries, worked on daily from 1990 until his death in 2013.
28 km · about 30 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Vista Chinesa
A pagoda-style belvedere built in 1903 in the Tijuca forest, giving a framed view over the Lagoa, Corcovado, Ipanema and Sugarloaf. Reachable by car on the Estrada da Vista Chinesa.
28 km · about 30 min drive
Driving roads near Belford Roxo
27 kmRio-Niterói Bridge13 km box-girder giant striding across Guanabara Bay: the longest bridge in the Southern Hemisphere at its opening in 1974, with sweeping views of Rio's skyline.
28 kmRebouças TunnelTwin-bore road tunnel under the Tijuca massif linking Rio's South Zone to the North Zone, about 2.8 kilometres long.
28 kmVista ChinesaA pagoda-style belvedere built in 1903 in the Tijuca forest, giving a framed view over the Lagoa, Corcovado, Ipanema and Sugarloaf. Reachable by car on the Estrada da Vista Chinesa.
32 kmSugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar)A granite peak rising 396 meters from Guanabara Bay, reached by cable car with sweeping views of Rio's beaches, mountains, and cityscape.
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.