Feira de São Cristóvão

Estudiantes vestidos con ropas típicas del nordeste de Brasil en la Feria de San Cristóbal.

Meeting at 13:00 at Rio & Learn
Price: 4,05 reais (bus) + 20,00-50,00 reais for a taxi + 3,00-20,00 reais for an entrance ticket (Bring extra money if you would like to have dinner and drinks with us or to buy some products).

Feira de São Cristóvão or Centro Luiz Gonzaga de Tradições Nordestinas (Luiz Gonzaga Northeastern Traditions Center) is located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the North Zone (Zona Norte). It was created in honor of Luiz Gonzaga, the King of Baiao.

It is a fair that promotes Northeastern culture and products. The Northeast of Brazil is a huge part of the country with a lot of different traditions, cultures, and places. That means this fair an amazing place to experience a lot of Brazilian life that foreigners are not used to.

At the fair, we will find Northestearn traditional dresses, dishes, foods, fruits, gifts, handmade products, and music. We will see many people dancing forró; it’s a very popular and traditional dance in the Northeast of Brazil. So, if you want you can try dancing too!!

If you are hungry and would like to experience some local food, you can have a typical Northeastern dinner with us and have a great time studying Portuguese.

Your eyes won’t be able to catch everything there is so much! 😉

Feira de São Cristóvão’s history

During the XX century, many people from Nordeste came to Rio de Janeiro looking for work opportunities. They would go to Campo de São Cristóvão to work in construction. That’s why they settled there. These meetings had typical music and food from Nordeste. With time, these meetings became an event and the fair started to happen around Campo de São Cristóvão in the open air. In 2003, this incredible fair gained a place of its own inside the pavilion. The pavilion was refurbished by Rio’s City Hall and transformed into the Luiz Gonzaga Northeastern Traditions Center as we know it today.

Sweet Forró. Feira de São Cristóvão. Ten foreign students at the feira de são cristóvão. Northeastern food store. Students in front of a food stand.

See the links below on how our last visits to Feira de São Cristóvão with RioLIVE! were:

	November 2021	March 2021	January 2021
January 2020	November 2019	October 2019	August 2019
July 2019	June 2019	May 2019	January 2019
December 2018	November 2018	October 2018	August 2018
April 2018	January 2018	December 2017	November 2017
August 2017	June 2017	May 2017	March 2017
January 2017	October 2016	July 2016	May 2016
January 2016	December 2015	November 2015	October 2015
September 2015	August 2015	July 2015	May 2015
March 2015	January 2015	October 2014	September 2014
August 2014	June 2014	May 2014	March 2014
January 2014	November 2013	September 2013	August 2013

A Brazilian Northeastern dinner at Feira de São Cristóvão.