Cinelândia District
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thumb|230px|View of Cinelândia Square. thumb|230px|Buildings at Cinelândia. thumb|230px|right|View of Cinelândia square in 1919. The monument to Floriano Peixoto is in the foreground. The Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)|Municipal Theatre is at the background left. thumb|upright|230px|View of Cinelândia square towards Guanabara bay and the Sugar Loaf. thumb|230px|Cinelândia. Cinelândia is the popular name of a major public square in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its official name is Praça Floriano Peixoto, in honour of the second president of Brazil, Floriano Peixoto.
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- Brazil
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- Zona Central, Rio de Janeiro
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- Cinelândia - RJ - panoramio.jpg
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thumb|230px|View of Cinelândia Square. thumb|230px|Buildings at Cinelândia. thumb|230px|right|View of Cinelândia square in 1919. The monument to Floriano Peixoto is in the foreground. The Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)|Municipal Theatre is at the background left. thumb|upright|230px|View of Cinelândia square towards Guanabara bay and the Sugar Loaf. thumb|230px|Cinelândia. Cinelândia is the popular name of a major public square in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its official name is Praça Floriano Peixoto, in honour of the second president of Brazil, Floriano Peixoto.
==History== In colonial times, the main structure in the Cinelândia area was the , built for women in 1750. Today's square started to gain its current shape in the early 20th century, when the Brazilian government considered that Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the Republic, needed to be completely overhauled.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cinelândia District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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