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DOS BONECOS |
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Built in the middle of the century XIX, it has a mixture of several architectural styles. Observe the granite door-jamb, the grid well sculptured in the balconies, the iron and glass lamps, the copper of the horns used to flow off the rainwater and tiles with painted porcelain. Located in the Rua do Comércio, after Café Paraty. Its name is derived from of five porcelain statues that stood over the pediment and that were taken out and sold in the 1930 decade.
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| CASA
DA CULTURA |
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Located at the corner of the streets Samuel Costa and Dona Geralda, this beautiful two-storey house was built in 1754, as it shows the "florão"* above the main door. In the beginning of the century XX has worked as school, becoming in a later date, a club (boite) until to be transformed in 1990 in the current Casa da Cultura. According to UNESCO, this is the most representative two-storey house of the century XVIII architecture. |
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| SANTA
CASA DA MISERICÓRDIA |
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The first stone of the construction was blessed in the main church in 13 of October of 1822. It is located on the left edge of the Perequê-Açu river, outside the historical center. Specially built to be a hospital, it has a ceiling ventilation where there is a statute of Dom Pedro I. |
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| SOBRADO
NA RUA DA MATRIZ |
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Located in the beginning of Rua da Matriz, next to the Santa Rita church is considered one of the oldest two-storey houses of the city. |
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| CÂMARA
MUNICIPAL |
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Located in the corner of the streets Rua do Comércio and Samuel Costa, it had its ground part built in the century XVIII and its superior built in the century XIX, Inside it , it is found some furniture from the old freemasonry lodge Union and Beauty, among them sofas with freemasonry triangle and canopy (ornamental cover) over the presidency table . It is also highlighted a lithography of D.Pedro II from the century XIX located in the hall. |
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| SOBRADOS
DA RUA DO COMÉRCIO |
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In the backward of the "Matriz" Church are four beautiful and contiguous two storey houses. In the third one, which door has the date of 1948, worked a theater. |
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| SOBRADO
DO PRÍNCIPE |
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Located at the Rua Fresca, it is a very beautiful two-storey house surrounded by imperial floss silk tree, belonging to the Royal Family. |
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| FISH MARKET |
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Paraty and Angra dos Reis provide 10% of the consumed fish in the Rio de Janeiro State. In the fish market of Paraty, next Santa Rita Square and in front of the sea, it is possible to buy fish, shrimps, squid, octopus totally fresh, sometimes still alive. Fish Boats of small size can reach the market door to unship the daily fishing. |
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| CHAFARIZ
DO PEDREIRA |
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Built in 1851, it supplied water for the dwellers of the city and "tropeiros"* who travel through mountains. |
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| HOUSES AT RUA DR. PEDREIRA |
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(next the fish market)
None of the houses of this place have windows, indicating that near the port was the main trade area of the city with constructions destined to store, markets and stock. Today in these same houses there are several ateliers. |
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| SOBRADO
DOS ABACAXIS |
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It is a two-storey house rich in architectural details, with freemasonry adornments in the façade, balconies with well-sculptured iron grid and adornments in pineapple format.
* People who traveled to sell goods |
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