The Santa Teresa district is located on the hill of the same name in the center of Rio de Janeiro and is famous for its winding and narrow, picturesque streets. One of the popular amusements here among tourists is a trip along the only surviving Bondinho tram line in Rio in cars of the last century without windows and doors, with jumping into the car on the go. The area grew up around a Carmelite monastery built in the 1750s on Desterro Hill. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, representatives of the upper strata of Brazilian society settled here, as their preserved magnificent mansions remind of. Here are houses of artists, art studios and galleries, the Xacara do Seu Museum, the Santa Teresa Tram History Museum, the Church of St. Zenaida, built with the money of Russian emigrants in the 1930s, Ruin Park. Local bars and restaurants are popular, where city gourmets come on Saturdays. From the observation decks on the hill, unforgettable views of the center of Rio and Guanabara Bay open up.