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Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí

The Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí is a purpose-built parade area built for the Rio Carnival in , . The venue is also known as Passarela Professor Darcy Ribeiro or simply the Sambódromo in Portuguese or Sambadrome in English.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: parade area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Sambadrome” and “Sambadrome Marques de Sapucai”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Praça da Apoteose and Hospital Escola São Francisco de Assis.

Square
Photo: Jorge mello ej, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Apotheosis Square is a venue in close to the Morro da Mineira favela. It is part of Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí, which can hold a maximum 90,000 people. is situated 290 metres south of Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí.

Hospital
Photo: Donatas Dabravolskas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 500 metres northwest of Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí.

Community center
Photo: Guilherme Bastos, CC BY 2.0.
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba is one of the most traditional samba schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro. It has won once the top-tier Rio parade in 1992. is situated 530 metres west of Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cidade Nova and Estácio.

Suburb
is a middle-to-lower-class neighborhood in , . It is located between the and the . The Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí is situated within this neighborhood.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in , . The neighborhood was named after de Sá, the founder of Rio de Janeiro. The place where samba began.

Suburb
is a neighborhood in , , and includes the Morro da Mineira favela.

Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí

Latitude
-22.91089° or 22° 54′ 39″ south
Longitude
-43.19687° or 43° 11′ 49″ west
Inception
1984
Open location code
589R3RQ3+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 34306743
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­sambadrome
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q281521
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سامبودرومو ماركيز دي سابوكاي”
  • Catalan: “Sambòdrom Marquès de Sapucaí”
  • Chinese: “薩普卡伊侯爵森巴場”
  • Croatian: “Sambodrom u Rio de Janeiru”
  • Dutch: “Passarela Professor Darcy Ribeiro”
  • Dutch: “Sambodromo da Marques de Sapucai”
  • Dutch: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Esperanto: “Sambodromo”
  • French: “Sambodrome Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • French: “Sambodrome Marquês-de-Sapucaí”
  • German: “Sambódromo”
  • Greek: “Σαμπαντρόμε Μαρκές ντε Σαπουκάλ”
  • Hebrew: “סמבודרומו”
  • Italian: “Sambodromo di Rio de Janeiro”
  • Japanese: “サンボードロモ・ダ・マルケス・ジ・サプカイ”
  • Lithuanian: “Marquês de Sapucaí sambadromas”
  • Macedonian: “Самбадром”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Norwegian: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Portuguese: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Romanian: “Sambadromul Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Russian: “Самбодром”
  • Spanish: “Sambodromo da Marques de Sapucai”
  • Spanish: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Spanish: “Sambódromo del Marqués de Sapucaí”
  • Swedish: “Sambódromo da Marquês de Sapucaí”
  • Ukrainian: “Алея імені Професора Дарсі Рібейру”
  • Ukrainian: “Самбодром імені Маркіза ді Сапукаї”
  • Ukrainian: “Самбодром”
  • Vietnamese: “Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 1º Batalhão da Polícia Militar and Praça Coronel Castelo Branco.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí”. Photo: Ben Tavener, CC BY 2.0.