{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "type": "city",
  "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
  "local_city_name": "Rio",
  "country": "Brazil",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/rio-de-janeiro",
  "updated": "July 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "name": "Belisco",
      "slug": "belisco",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Botafogo",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Eat",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A women-owned wine bar; Gabriela Teixeira, a tasteful, opinionated Sommelière, runs the bottles and chef Monique Gabietti the kitchen. Small plates, good bottles, and Botafogo behaving like it knows something.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Aprazível",
      "slug": "aprazivel",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Santa Teresa",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Eat",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Brazilian cooking on a Santa Teresa hillside with the bay laid out below; marked for the view as much as the kitchen.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Bar do Mineiro",
      "slug": "bar-do-mineiro",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Santa Teresa",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Eat",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A Santa Teresa botequim papered in old photographs; feijoada on Saturdays, cachaça whenever. Marked, not yet judged.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Confeitaria Colombo",
      "slug": "confeitaria-colombo",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Centro",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Eat",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "An 1894 café of Belgian mirrors and stained glass; order a coffee and a pastry, and let the room do the rest.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Real Gabinete Português de Leitura",
      "slug": "real-gabinete-portugues-de-leitura",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Centro",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A neo-Manueline reading room where the books climb three storeys into the light; marked, and waiting for the right quiet hour.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "MAM Rio",
      "local_name": "Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio",
      "slug": "mam-rio",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Flamengo",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Reidy’s concrete modernism set in a Burle Marx garden by the bay; marked for the building as much as what hangs in it.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Casa Roberto Marinho",
      "slug": "casa-roberto-marinho",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Cosme Velho",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A collector’s hillside house in Cosme Velho; Brazilian modernism hung where someone actually lived with it.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Sítio Roberto Burle Marx",
      "slug": "sitio-roberto-burle-marx",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Barra de Guaratiba",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The landscape architect’s own estate out west, thousands of species arranged by the man who taught Brazil to see its plants; marked for a long day out.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Theatro Municipal",
      "slug": "theatro-municipal",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Centro",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Architecture",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Rio’s Belle Époque opera house, marble and gilt off Cinelândia; marked for a night when something worth the room is on.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Museum of Tomorrow",
      "local_name": "Museu do Amanhã",
      "slug": "museum-of-tomorrow",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Praça Mauá",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Architecture",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Calatrava’s white skeleton reaching out over the revived port; a science museum about where we’re headed, more convincing as a building than a prophecy.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Parque Lage",
      "slug": "parque-lage",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Jardim Botânico",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Walk",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A palatial courtyard at the foot of Corcovado, forest pressing in at the edges; coffee under the arches while the mountain watches.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Floresta da Tijuca",
      "slug": "floresta-da-tijuca",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Tijuca",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Walk",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The world’s largest urban forest, replanted by hand in the 1860s; trails, waterfalls, and the city’s lungs a few minutes above the noise.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Copacabana Beach",
      "local_name": "Praia de Copacabana",
      "slug": "copacabana-beach",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Copacabana",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Walk",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Four kilometres of wave-pattern pavement and open Atlantic; the city’s living room, busy from the dawn swimmers to the last beer.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Copacabana Palace",
      "slug": "copacabana-palace",
      "city": "Rio de Janeiro",
      "local_city_name": "Rio",
      "area": "Copacabana",
      "country": "Brazil",
      "category": "Sleep",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The 1923 grande dame on the beachfront; you don’t have to stay the night to feel why the city measures glamour against it.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}