BEAUTIFUL, PICTURESQUE AND POLLUTED
Ilha da Boa Viagem -- Island of Good Travel/Safe Voyage -- is much smaller than, but pound-for-pound almost as beautiful as the famed Sugar Loaf.
Home of both a battery that used to protect Guanabara Bay and the Capela de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem, it is the stuff of dreams perched atop the blue waters.
A bridge links it to Niteroi on the mainland.
Though our Portuguese is pretty lousy, we understood a sign we saw in late January to say the buildings are being restored for visitors.
It is about a five minute walk downhill from the Museum of Contemporary Art -- the space ship designed by the late Brazilian modernist master Oscar Nieymeyer.
