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Juiz de Fora

Juiz de Fora is a city in Southern Minas Gerais, close to the state border with Rio de Janeiro. According to the 2006 estimate the population was 509,125 inhabitants. Wikivoyage

Population 540,756 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Brazil

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Brazil

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Juiz de Fora. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Celebra Open Air

    March

    Electronic music festival with some foreign attractions (March)

  2. Festival Internacional de Música Colonial Brasileira e Música Antiga

    July

    International Festival of Colonial Brazilian Music and Antique Music (July)

  3. Rainbow Fest

    August

    Several events (parties, debates and a parade) targeting the LGBT community. In the same week of Miss Brasil Gay (August)

  4. Primeiro Plano

    November

    Independent movie festival (November)

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Juiz de Fora); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.