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| Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (Royal Portuguese Reading Room) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
The interior of Real Gabinete Português is four stories tall, capped with a stained-glass cupola and illuminated by an elaborate chandelier. Built in 1837 by the Portuguese, the reading room contains over 350,000 volumes, many of them from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Source: Soldon's Flickr Photostream [Translation]
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