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August 27, 2022

Three famous landmarks define Rio de Janeiro:

First, the large statue of Christ the Redeemer, which watches over one of Brazil's most famous cities from Corcovado Mountain and is featured in every documentary about the country.

Second, the famous sandy beach of Copacabana, where you can enjoy the sea and which provides the perfect backdrop for refreshing cocktails.

And finally, Sugarloaf Mountain, located on the Urca Peninsula, is a bell-shaped rock whose beautiful, round shape is reminiscent of a sugarloaf, thus contributing to the rock's name. What is the history of the rock and the famous cable car to Sugarloaf Mountain, which was once built by a German company?

Sugarloaf Mountain is only 395 meters high. That makes it not even particularly tall.

But its round shape has made it an unmistakable landmark of Rio de Janeiro. The small, rounded Sugarloaf Mountain is hundreds of millions of years old and is made of iron-like granite. Its rock once emerged from the Earth's interior as magma. From this, a rock formed, from which several outer layers peeled away like an onion, until finally a distinctively rounded, bell-shaped rock remained in the landscape, which still catches everyone's attention today and quickly became the subject of stories and myths: Sugarloaf Mountain. Its external appearance also contributed to the fact that Sugarloaf Mountain was long considered unclimbable.

Who could possibly climb such a rounded rock?

The Englishwoman Henrietta Carstairs finally succeeded. In 1817, Carstairs, a mountaineer and nanny, climbed Sugarloaf Mountain at the age of 39.

Carstairs then hoisted the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on its summit. With this action, the female mountaineer seriously offended the Portuguese colonial power that ruled Brazil. According to Brazilian legend, the following day, a patriotic Brazilian soldier climbed Sugarloaf Mountain and replaced the Union Jack with the Brazilian flag.

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Hiking Beast

January 8, 2023

The famous Sugar Loaf, of course you have to visit it and enjoy the view properly. In 1817 it was climbed for the first time. It is about 400m high.

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Roland

August 14, 2018

From the Sugar Loaf you have a nice view over Rio de Janeiro. A cable car leads to the Sugar Loaf, alternatively you can climb it on the footpath.

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