at a glance

The anthropologist, Miriam Goldemberg, stated that the image of Leila Diniz in a bikini with a pregnant belly on show, in 1971, demonstratedtransgressive behaviour: 'The pregnant belly of Leila Diniz, revealed by a bikini on ipanema beach, is still remembered today as a symbol of female liberation in Brazil - This behavior probably wouldn't have been understood on another beach'.

Presented by the Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro, the study Sítio Cultural de Ipanema - Cultural Site in Ipanema is the result of consolidation with the 'Ipanemense', is made with the objective of finding legal mechanisms and/or documents that could help to keep alive the memory of a neighborhood which was, is and will be, for many years to come, the stage of cultural and social events of national significance. Ipanema reverberates across the country.