Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro: Centuries in Stone
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Few cities wear their history as visibly as Rio de Janeiro, and nowhere in Rio is that history more densely layered than in Centro and Lapa. These neighboring districts form the oldest urban core of a city that has served as a colonial capital, the seat of a Portuguese royal court in exile, the capital of an empire, and eventually the beating heart of a young republic. Walk these streets and you are walking through centuries of ambition, faith, commerce, and culture, all of…
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- Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
- Arcos da Lapa
- Escadaria Selarón
- Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
- Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
- Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
- Paço Imperial
- Igreja Nossa Senhora do Carmo da Antiga Sé
- Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Candelária
- Confeitaria Colombo
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