Royal Portuguese Reading Office

Today I will tell you about the true Portuguese reading cabinet

Rio de Janeiro is a city that has a fantastic history, which is often underestimated compared to Europe or America. Everything that happened in this city makes the history of Rio 1 Tourism very special.

Rio de Janeiro was the only European capital outside Europe in history due to the escape of the royal family with the Regent Prince Dom Joao Sexto and Queen Doña María from the tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte.

With the arrival of the royal family, a whole cultural framework came for the development of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Brazil as a whole. Rio de Janeiro is full of institutions and buildings from that time.

One of the most important is the Royal Portuguese Reading Cabinet, which is a very important library in the formation of some of the most important names in Brazilian literature and the cultural development of our country.

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The office that is, not by chance, in Rua Luiz de Camões, dedicated to the illustrious Portuguese writer, who wrote the famous work Os Lusíadas, is close to the Tiradentes Square, which is a historic square and with a very close connection with the Arts.

and culture The Real Cabinet is truly one of the greatest legacies of Portuguese culture in Brazil. And the oldest association created by the Portuguese society that lived in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century. It was founded in 1837, in a period after independence, when Brazil was already the empire.

Before going to the current building, Bibi was on the Rua de São Pedro, Rua da Quitanda, and with an increase in acid he went to the current address. The building has incredible beauty on the outside and majestic inside.

It is reminiscent of his own design of works such as Harry Potter, neo-Gothic. I consider one of the most beautiful in the world. the style is neomanuelino The same style as the construction of the Jeronimos monastery and also the Belém tower in Portugal.

Manueline architecture has its component in naturalism and its design and inspiration in nautical, with many components that resemble parts of a caravel. Appreciation The nautical design comes from the Lusitanian pride for its quality in the area.

The Portuguese for a long time, with the Sagres school, were the best explorers of the seas. He had and has a creative and very strong culture in that regard.

Among the 300,000 cabinet books, we can find works that are truly incomparable arts in the world. There one of the relics is a copy of The Lusíadas Lusíadas of 1572, its first edition. Building also held the first solemn sessions of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

From 1906, the library was made public and any Brazilian can access it. He was previously deprived of an association of Portuguese origin that developed the institution. The office serves as legal deposit of Portugal in Brazil, which means that all Portuguese publications can be stored there.

The royal cabinet has a division called the Study Center that offers the public a course in literature and various arts.

Inside the building it is worth noting the refinement of the architecture, highlighting the metals in the ceiling with viscerally Lusitanian colors. We also have certain status as great personalities of our culture there, and we find the coat of arms of the empire several times with the Maltese Cross, symbol of the Christian origin of our culture.

Be sure to visit this Rarity in downtown Rio. Even if you don’t like to read, the beauty of the place will impress you, I’m sure of that. and for expert readers and history buffs, it’s a more complete dish here. come!