#Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Public library, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading is a library and lusophone cultural institution, is located in Luís de Camões Street, number 30, in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is listed by the State Institute of Cultural Heritage. Wikipedia

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Photographer: Donatas Dabravolskas (Brazil)

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Library of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading l Rio de Janeiro (c. 1887)

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

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The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Built in the Neo-Manuel style (Portuguese Neo-Gothic) by the architect Rafael da Silva, the library houses about 350,000 books. The library is mainly decorated with carved wooden bookshelves.

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Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading) is located on Luís de Camões Street, number 30, in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Royal Library Português Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The current headquarters were designed by the Portuguese architect Rafael da Silva e Castro and built between 1880 and 1887 in the Neo-Manueline style.

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The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Brazil

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio.

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The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro

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Brazil’s most beautiful library goes viral

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, a little-known cultural gem founded 185 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, is seeing throngs of new visitors thanks to TikTok and Instagram

Mondays are the most popular time to visit the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, or Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Brazil’s great sanctuary of Portuguese books and culture, and one of the most beautiful libraries in the world, located in the heart of the sprawling coastal city of Rio de Janeiro. On Saturday, June 25, when most of Rio’s other museums and cultural institutes were closed for the weekend, the Royal Cabinet saw an endless stream of visitors. Natural light filtering down through the skylight, dimly illuminating the reading room, with its towering walls of multicolored book spines — nearly 400,000 antique, leather-bound volumes in total. For decades, academics have treasured this spectacular library — the largest collection of Portuguese authors outside Portugal — as a place of quiet study. But in recent years, it has become an increasingly popular backdrop for photos and selfies, with crowds of visitors swarming the stately main hall to gaze up at the walls of books and pose for social media posts.

The Royal Cabinet was one of Rio’s little-known cultural gems, until it went viral on Instagram and TikTok. As the institution’s long-time coordinator, Orlando Inácio, explains: “It’s an effect of social media. They come, take pictures, and make posts, then others see it and want to come too.” The library’s popularity first started to rise around the time that the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games came to Rio, when Time magazine called the Cabinet the fourth most beautiful library in the world. Its fame has only grown since.

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The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading (Portuguese: Real Gabinete Português de Leitura) is a library and lusophone cultural institution, is located in Luís de Camões Street, number 30, in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is listed by the State Institute of Cultural Heritage. Elected the fourth most beautiful library in the world by Time magazine, the Cabinet has the largest collection of Portuguese literature outside Portugal.

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Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Brazil