Le Sitio Roberto Burle Marx

Located in Barra de Guaratiba, a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, the property where Burle Marx lived and produced in the last twenty years of his life was – and continues to be – a large experimentation laboratory: more than 3,500 species of tropical plants and subtropical, organized in nurseries and gardens, coexist in harmony with the native vegetation in an area of ​​405 thousand square meters, which includes several buildings, lakes, gardens, art collections and a vast library.