Main highlights in Gavea

• Instituto Moreira Salles – cultural center that hosts events and promotes projects in photography, literature, cinema, visual arts and music.
• Planetário – Museum of the Universe with numerous expositions about the earth and the space.
• PUC Unidade Gávea – the campus of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro is an attraction itself. Its green territory looks more like a botanical garden than a university campus.
• Shopping da Gávea featuring many up-scale brand shops, several restaurants and cafeterias, a cinema and a theater.