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Urban low-income community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vila Vintém

Vila Vintém is an urban low income living community located between the neighbourhoods of Realengo and Padre Miguel, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Vila Vintém
Vila Vintém · Andréa Farias
The place

Vila Vintém is an urban low income living community located between the neighbourhoods of Realengo and Padre Miguel, in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Situated on the borders of the railroad, it shelters the headquarters of Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel and also Unidos de Padre Miguel, as well as many of their components. Its principal road is called Rua Belisário de Souza, that goes from the ensemble of IAPI, in Padre Miguel, until Realengo.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vila Vintém

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.

  1. 01
    Estádio 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.

    900 m · football stadium in Brazil · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vila Vintém

Airports
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 21 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 30 km
  • São Paulo → Vila Vintém
    335 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · R$390–600
  • Belo Horizonte → Vila Vintém
    332 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · R$390–610
  • Campinas → Vila Vintém
    371 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · R$380–580
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vila Vintém

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 Vintém. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Rio de Janeiro, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  2. 02
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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Vila Vintém

Vila Vintém is 11 km from São João de Meriti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Banguneighborhood in municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil2.5 km
  • Realengoneighborhood in municipality of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil2 km
  • Vila Kennedyneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro3.9 km
  • Gericinóneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro3.6 km
  • Magalhães Bastosneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro3.9 km
  • Padre Miguelneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro1.8 km