The Maracanã is Brazil's great football stadium — a 78,000-seat arena in the North Zone that opened in 1950 for the FIFA World Cup and has hosted two World Cup finals (1950 and 2014) and the 2016 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium has been renovated several times and is now modern and well-serviced, but it still has the scale and character of a place that matters.
Tours of the stadium are available daily and include the pitch, the dressing rooms, the press boxes, and a museum of Brazilian football. Attending a league match is the better option when possible — Flamengo, Fluminense, Vasco da Gama, and Botafogo all play here at various points in the season, and the atmosphere when Flamengo host a big game is one of the loudest in world football. The stadium is reachable by metro (Maracanã station on Line 2).