On the other extreme, if you ever want to see the actual (charming) city where Brazilian tv and cinema productions portraying the colonial period (16th-19th cen

On the other extreme, if you ever want to see the actual (charming) city where Brazilian tv and cinema productions portraying the colonial period (16th-19th cent) are filmed, it’s called Tiradentes, in Minas Gerais. Definitely worth a trip if you are in Rio or Sao Paulo.