The Caminho do Imperador is a 100-mile (160.94 km) route created in the mountains of the State of Rio de Janeiro on a more comprehensive route already existing in this region. The original route is called Caminhos de Nossa Senhora, created in 2009 by the Polish priest Cristóvão Sopicki, being a pilgrimage way that connects the city of Rio de Janeiro / RJ to the Catedral Basílica Nacional Santuário de Nossa Senhora Conceição Aparecida, in the city of Aparecida / SP, which is the largest Catholic temple in Brazil and the second largest in the world, smaller only than St.