City residents are divided into Old Town, New
and suburbs. In the Old Town to Custom House, the docks, the arsenal,
the Exchange, the National Academy of Fine Arts, City Hall, and cultural
institutions, including all theaters and almost all museums. The new
city is known for the mint, a prison, the main railway station and the
Invalides. The beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana, Flamengo Park, the
giant statue of Christ the Redeemer on Mount Corcovado, Sugar Loaf
Mountain (port. Pão de Açucar), Maracana Stadium (port. Maracanã) - the
second largest in the world football stadium (200 thousand people).
Known
and most visited architectural monuments of the city are the colonial
churches, the monastery of San Bento, the monasteries of San Antonio and
the Order of the Capuchins, and the former imperial residence of the
Quinta da Boa Vista.
Ipanema Beach
Church of the Virgin Lampedosa named after the
island Lampedosa in the Mediterranean, where, according to legend, was
the appearance of the Holy Virgin. It was erected in 1929 on the site of
the dilapidated building of the XVIII century in neoclassical style
under the influence of the Mexican architectural school. The main
attraction of the Church of Saint Lucia, built in 1732 - a natural
fountain, whose water is considered curative. And the Church of
Candelaria.
Despite the fact that the streets and quays of Rio de
Janeiro literally drowning in tropical vegetation, the city has a
botanical garden and a lot of parks. In the botanical garden, which was
founded in 1808 and is one of the best in the world, has collected more
than 7,000 plant species from around the world. It also houses the
famous avenue of palm trees, and a collection of exotic birds and
animals. Tijuca National Park, which is located in the top of Corcovado,
is the largest urban forest in the world. Here you can find monkeys and
exotic birds. In a suburb of the Zoological Garden.
At the National
Library, according to preliminary estimates, two million rare books and
manuscripts. The National Museum of Fine Arts has a fine collection,
which collected more than 800 paintings by various artists. At the
National History Museum houses more than 278 thousand items.
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