Isn't it lovely when you visit a tentative site, and it ends up inscribed years later?  I visited Sitio Roberto Burle Marx back in 2017 while I was in Rio for work.  It is well worth a half-day trip from the city and a good example of why WHS-based travel can be so rewarding -- it's a place I'd have never discovered had I not been looking at the lists (well, tentative lists at the time).

Burle Marx was a Brazilian landscape architect.  The site consists of his house and gardens.  The site reminds me somewhat of the Luis Barragan House in Mexico City, and is a nice addition to the Niemeyer architectural tour that you can do in Brazilia and Belo Horizonte.  Burle Marx was a contemporary of Niemeyer and designed the gardens at Pamphula 

Date of Visit: August 2017

Rating:  3 stars. I am a sucker for modern architecture, and I also find it nice to have a self-contained, single visit site to capture the key value of an architect/gardener’s works (as opposed to trekking around the world to visit Corbusier’s assorted works or across the U.S. for Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings.)  I thoroughly enjoyed the visit and think it complements the Niemeyer sites listed in Brazil, as the two were contemporaries who sometimes worked together.

Logistics: Visits are only by guided tours. I emailed the site to schedule a visit in advance, and was scheduled for an English language tour on the requested date. It looks like today you may schedule tours online through the official website and that they sell our far in advance. Tours are offered in English and Portuguese 

It was not a problem to take an Uber from Barra da Tijuca, where I was staying (about a half hour); I had no issues calling an Uber for the return trip.  Overall, this is a quick and easy site if you're already in Rio.

Sign: None, though I visited before it was inscribed.