2016 Summer Paralympics Torch Relay was a 7-day event leading up to the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . It began on September 1 , 2016 , in Brasilia and concluded at the Games ' opening ceremony on September 7 . The Paralympic torch relay began with five individual flames being relayed to a city in each of the five regions of Brazil . These flames , as well as a sixth flame lit in Stoke Mandeville , Great Britain , were united to form a single Paralympic flame , which was relayed through Rio on 6 and 7 September 2016 en route to its lighting at the Maracanã during the opening ceremony
opening ceremony
2016 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
2016 Summer Paralympics torch relay