RIO DE JANERIO: all things considered, it would appear that another memorable building in Rio's summary downtown area.
Inside, in any case, is a multi-layered library so stupendous, so fancy, that shocked guests feel like they've strolled into a film dream set.
"In 'Harry Potter' we've seen libraries like this!" shouted Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French visitor, glancing around at the racks of calfskin bound books climbing the dividers under an octagonal sky facing window of red, white and blue recolored glass.
"Indeed, as in the motion pictures," concurred his accomplice, Laeticia Rau, 50.
The Royal Portuguese Reading Room — the Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura in Portuguese — was worked in the late nineteenth century under the stewardship of a relationship of Portuguese vagrants that still thinks about the organization.
Its Gothic-Renaissance design and plenty of carvings, tiles and models praise the wonder of the Portuguese revelations period in the fifteenth and sixteenth hundreds of years.
Holding somewhere in the range of 350,000 books, some of them extremely uncommon, the library today is more a vacation spot and selfie setting than a perusing room, however for a couple of it remains an irreplaceable safe house for the biggest accumulation of Portuguese-dialect books outside of Portugal.
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