cultural events take place throughout the city and at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa museum, in botafogo.

the house and garden are preserved in the manner that rui left it - this museum archives over 35,000 volumes of rui's old books and documents, telling the story of brazil's origin.

november 15th proclamation of the republic day (proclamação da república) is the day set aside as a national holiday to celebrate the overthrow, in rio de janeiro, of emperor pedro ii by field marshal deodoro da fonseca in 1889 - by the early 1880s, the government of the empire of brazil had failed to keep up with the changes that a growing independent country needed, so a bloodless coup occurred and the first republic was born.