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Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (Royal Portuguese Reading Room) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The interior of Real Gabinete Português is four stories tall, capped with a stained-glass cupola and illuminated by an elaborate chandelier. Created in 1837 by the Portuguese, the reading room contains over 350,000 volumes, many of them from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Via soldon @ Flickr.
