Manaus Agile Amazonas tourism and culture
Located at the beginning of Avenida 7 de Setembro, the Dom Pedro II Square was inaugurated in 1897 and was initially surrounded by cast iron railings, removed in 1907 and installed at the entrance of the Adolpho Lisboa Market. In the provincial period, this place was known as Largo do Pelourinho, because there was a wooden or stone pillar (pillory) used to punish criminals.
The square has a beautiful ornamentation composed by a bronze fountain, inaugurated in 1894 during Eduardo Ribeiro's administration, governor who made a brilliant project of embellishment of the city; and the iron bandstand, the oldest in the city, brought from Liverpool in 1882 and assembled in 1888 by the English company Francis Morton & Cia Engenheiro Limitado, receiving the name of 'Iron Chalet'.
The square was built, according to information from the Iphan (Institute for National Historic and Artistic Heritage), on top of an Indian cemetery, discovered at the end of the 19th century, and registered as archaeological in the 1960s.
In its surroundings are buildings of great historical relevance, such as the Paço da Liberdade, former headquarters of the city hall; as the ruins of the Cassina Hotel, transformed into the Chinelo Cabaret after the rubber crisis; the Rio Branco Palace, former headquarters of the Legislative Assembly, and the Iapetec building, the first "skyscraper" of Manaus, built in the 1950s, today it is the INSS (National Institute of Social Security).
❱ Address: Sete de Setembro, s/n - Centro - Manaus, Am., Brasil - Zip Code: 69.005-140
❱ Operation: Every day.
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