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Tiradentes Palace was inaugurated in 1926 to be the new seat of the Representative’s
Chamber. Formerly, the Legislative Chamber occupied a building placed in the exact same place, the Cadeia Velha, a place where Joaquim José da
Silva Xavier, the Tiradentes, was under arrest until being hanged in 1792.
In 1921, the government authorized the demolition of the old building and the
construction of the imposing Tiradents Palace. Five years after the beginning of the works, it was inaugurated. The architects that idealized
the new building were Archimedes Memória and Francisco Couchet.
Tiradentes Palace started to run the Representative’s Chamber and stayed there
until 1937, when Getúlio Vargas’s Government closed it. Since then, DIP – the Department of Press and Propaganda -, government institution
responsible for censorship and political propaganda, occupied the building.
With the end of Vargas’s era, Tiradentes Palace again became the Representative’s
Chamber. Lately, already in the 50’s, when the federal capital was transferred to Brasilia, Tiradentes Palace became the seat of the Legislative
Assembly and so it remains until today. Nowadays, Tiradentes Palace keeps a permanent exhibit about brazilian political history.
Address: Rua Primeiro de Março, no number
Downtown
Phone: 55-21-2533-6406 / 2533-5363
Fax: 55-21-2533-7228 |
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