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Confeitaria Colombo is a coffeehouse located in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is one of the main landmarks of the city's Central Region . Website City Guides named Colombo one of the 10 most beautiful cafés in the world.
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The menu included bowls of ice cream decorated with different shapes such as chickens and pyramids, and baskets of peaches. The European-influenced architecture, prevalent during the Brazilian Belle Époque, converted the confectionery into an elegant space, attracting the high society of Rio de Janeiro. In 1980, as the centenary of Casa Cavé ...
The Centro area also has several museums such as the National Museum of Fine Arts and the National Historical Museum. Other important historical attractions in downtown Rio include its Passeio Público , an 18th-century public garden, as well as the imposing arches of the Carioca Aqueduct and the Casa Cavé , the oldest confectionery in the city.
Zona Central (Central Region) is the historical, administrative, and financial centre of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has been undergoing a major revitalisation since it was rediscovered by locals in the 1990s.
Out of this context came the opening of Central Avenue, part of a major modernization program in Rio de Janeiro following European urban planning and health policies. The engineer Francisco Pereira Passos was responsible for the reforms, appointed mayor of Rio de Janeiro (Distrito Federal) by President Rodrigues Alves in 1902. The works ...
In 2007, Riocentro hosted a variety of events for the Pan American Games in several pavilions. Capacity of the pavilions ranges from 2,000 people to 4,500 people. When Rio was bidding for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics which it won in October 2009, four of its six pavilions were proposed as venues.
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