Vila Kennedy
Vila Kennedy is a neighborhood and favela in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro.
Vila Kennedy is a neighborhood and favela in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro. It is located on the fringes of Avenida Brasil. Its streets have the names of African and Asian countries, as well as musicians. Before being an official neighborhood it was a part of Bangu before being separated into its own neighborhood by law in July 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Vila Kennedy
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira
The Estádio Proletário Guilherme da Silveira Filho, but usually known as Estádio Moça Bonita is a football stadium inaugurated in 1947 in Bangu neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro, with a maximum capacity of 9,564 people. Estádio Moça Bonita is owned by Fábrica Bangu.
3.5 km · football stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vila Kennedy
- Airports
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 25 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 34 km
- São Paulo → Vila Kennedy331 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · R$400–620
- Belo Horizonte → Vila Kennedy330 km · quickest by air, 5h 53m · R$410–630
- Campinas → Vila Kennedy366 km · quickest by air, 5h 11m · R$390–610
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vila Kennedy
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vila Kennedy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in]] Ferries (barcas) connect neighbouring Niterói to Rio de Janeiro and arrive at Praça XV (see down), in the city centre.
- Get aroundAmong the public transportation modes, there is subway, heavy rail, light rail, bus rapid transit, local buses, microbuses, cable cars and ferry boats.
- Get aroundFerry boats depart from Santa Teresa Tram, Centro Corcovado Rack Railway, Zona Sul Sugarloaf Cable Car (Zona Sul) Buses are still the cheapest and most convenient way to get around the South Zone (Zona Sul) of the city due to the high number and frequency of lines running through the area.
- Get aroundExcept for minibuses, buses now have two doors: passengers get in through the front door and get off through the back (it was otherwise until 2001–2002).
- Get aroundBuses 511 (Ataulfo de Paiva) and 512 (Bartholomeu Mitre) are also popular as they take you to Urca for the station to take the cable car up the Sugarloaf mountain.
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Vila Kennedy is 11 km from Nova Iguaçu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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