Wikipedia has an additional photo of the building on its stub page for the Municipal Chamber (
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This tourism website (
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"Palácio Pedro Ernesto / Câmara Municipal, Rio de Janeiro (must see)
The Pedro Ernesto Palace is a magnificent building of neo-classical French architectural style or "Beaux-Arts", a design that was considered symbolic of Rio de Janeiro’s modernization. Its construction was started in 1919 and completed in 1923. It is also called Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro which is the unicameral legislative body of the city. Located in Cinelândia Square, just adjacent to the Municipal Theatre and close to the National Museum of Fine Arts, it is the most photographed building in Rio de Janeiro. The area has some restaurants and cafés that are also worth visiting, along with other very impressive historic buildings.
Tip:
Go inside – you'll be surprised by the beauty of the palace and the friendliness of the staff. They offer a guided tour, explaining a little history of the place and Brazil. Otherwise, try to see the building at night time, with illumination!
Opening Hours:
Mon-Fri: 8am-5pm"
As for the City, Wikipedia (
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Rio de Janeiro ... River of January), or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. Later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal, who subsequently, in 1815, under the leadership of her son, the Prince Regent, and future King João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília."