furthermore, in niterói one can find the biblioteca publíca de niterói, a historically and culturally significant state library.

understanding Rio is  understanding how it was shaped by the writings of journalists, intellectuals and artists.

At the end of the 19th Century the city's soul lay in its centre, where a vast number of its great thinkers resided, continually representing and transforming it with the great force of their pen.

Rio was the center of the Brazilian government, and was therefore constantly drawing in the elite thinkers of the time, attracted to its buzzing intellectual epicenter.