Guanabara Palace
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| Guanabara Palace | |
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Palácio Guanabara | |
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  Location within Rio de Janeiro | |
| Former names | Paço Isabel |
| General information | |
| Status | Seat of government |
| Architectural style | Eclecticism |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Rua Pinheiro Machado, Brazil |
| Coordinates | 22°56′15″S 43°11′02″W / 22.93750°S 43.18389°W |
| Construction started | 1853 |
| Renovated | 1865; 1908; 1920; 2012 |
| Client | José Machado Coelho |
| Owner | Rio de Janeiro state government |
| Website | |
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The Guanabara Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Guanabara, formerly known as Paço Isabel) is the official seat of the government of Rio de Janeiro state. It is located on Pinheiro Machado Street (formerly Guanabara Street), in the Laranjeiras neighborhood (bairro), in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, capital of the homonymous state. The Guanabara Palace should not be confused with Laranjeiras Palace, located in the same neighborhood (at Paulo Cesar Andrade Street, 407), which is the official residence of the Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Originally built with neoclassical characteristics, its construction was started by Portuguese José Machado Coelho in 1853, having been used as a private residence until the 1860s. It was bought by the Brazilian imperial family in 1864 and then renovated by architect José Maria Jacinto Rebelo, becoming the residence of Princess Isabel and her husband, the Count of Eu, being then known as Paço Isabel. The building belonged to the princes until the proclamation of the Republic, in 1889, when it was confiscated by the republican military government and transferred to the Union, gaining its current name.[1][2]
In 1908, a new renovation, led by Francisco Marcelino de Souza Aguiar, gave the façade of the palace eclectic features. It was reformed again in 1920 for the occasion of the visit of King Albert of Belgium and his wife Elisabeth.[2]
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The palace was used as official residence by various presidents of Brazil, including president Getúlio Vargas during the Estado Novo (1937–1945). It was attacked during the putsch carried out by the Brazilian Integralist Action in 1938; the attackers were repelled by the Special Police (a division of the Civil Police of the Federal District), a reaction later reinforced by the Army.[2]
In 1946, the Guanabara Palace became the seat of the Federal District's City Hall, ceasing to be the official residence of the presidency, until 1960, when president Juscelino Kubitschek transferred Brazil's capital to Brasília. In 1960, when the city of Rio de Janeiro ceased to be the capital of Brazil, the territory of the former Federal District became the state of Guanabara, at that moment, the palace became the seat of the Government of the State of Guanabara, a role it would maintain after the merger of the State of Guanabara with the State of Rio de Janeiro, in 1975, during the government of president Ernesto Geisel. At the same time, the Guanabara Palace was donated by the Union to the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Ingá Palace, in Niterói, ceased to host the state government.[2][3][4]
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